- 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 densiflora Roth
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rhynchosia densiflora (Roth) DC.
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Dry and moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 500m on thickets.
- Key identification features : Villous twiner
- Flower, Fruit : December-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 02/01/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-312
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Salem district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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 densiflora. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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