• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Dolichos giganteus Willd.
• Synonym(s) : Carpogon giganteus (Willd.) Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mucuna gigantea (Willd.) DC.
• Vernacular name : Enuga dulagondi (Telugu); Kakavalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and sacred groves in plains
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, Australia to the Pacific Islands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Mucuna gigantea. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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