• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Mucuna pruriens var. hirsuta (Wight & Arn.) Wilmot-Dear
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mucuna pruriens var. hirsuta (Wight & Arn.)Wilmot-Dear
• Vernacular name : Kapikachhu (Sanskrit)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and sacred groves in plains
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collector(s) Name : M.C Lukose
• Collection Locality : Melukkavu, Kottayam District
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Krishna district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India, Thailand, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 hirsuta. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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