• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Diphaca cochinchinensis Lour.
• Synonym(s) : Ormocarpum sennoides subsp. sennoides (Willd.) DC.; Ormocarpum sennoides (Willd.) DC.; Hedysarum sennoides Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ormocarpum cochinchinense (Lour.) Merr.
• Vernacular name : Kattumurungai (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Scrub forests
• Comments / notes : Very rare
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 25/11/2009
• Collection Nos : FAP 39067
• Collection Locality : Idupulapaya, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Krishna district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Khurda district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Pudukkottai district, Ramanathapuram district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines, Polynesia, Tropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa 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=Ormocarpum cochinchinense. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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