- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Glycine cana Willd.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rhynchosia cana (Willd.) DC.
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Open dry deciduous forests and scrub forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 800m.
- Key identification features : Glandular
- Flower, Fruit : December-April
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 02-01-2016; 26-10-2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-274; HJCB-0118
- Collection Locality : Pulivendula Ghat, Kadapa district (AP); Talakona, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Prakasam district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Nellore district, Kurnool district
- Kerala : Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Rhynchosia cana. Downloaded on 4 November 2025.
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