• 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) : Carpopogon monospermum (DC. ex Wight) Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mucuna monosperma Wight
• Common name : Elephant scratch wort
• Vernacular name : Aane ippe balli, Nisaranga (Kannada); Periyattalargai, Thelu-kodi (Tamil); Enuga dulagondi, Peddadulagondi (Telugu); Sarni, Tekka, Bai donka (Oria); Kapikachhu (Sanskrit); Malanthalli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen, dry deciduous and moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Flowers purple on long corymbose racemes
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Gajapati district, Rayagada district, Koraput district, Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• 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 monosperma. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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