• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rhynchosia ravii K. Prasad & A. Narayana Swamy
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Open deciduous forests, rocky hills
• Comments / notes : Occasional in red soils in grass dominated slopes of degraded dry deciduous open forests at elevations 400–600m. Rhynchosia ravii is closely allied to Rhynchosia beddomei.
• Key identification features : Erect shrubs with a hieght of 1.2 m, presence of glandular tipped hairs, and glands are present on the leaves and it is trifoliate, each leaf has 2 stipels and it is caducous; leaflets are dimorphic, with dense, short, fine, greyish-white hairs that is canescent on both sides; Inflorescence is an axillary raceme with 1- 3 racemes per axil, slender, filiform, goldenyellow and laxlyflowered; bracts are ovate, deeply or shallowly 3-lobed; calyx tube is 2–4 mm in length; gynoecium as long as or longer than the staminal sheath; fruits are oblong and 2-seeded
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02-01-2016; 13-12-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-277; HJCB-E-389
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kadapa district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Eastern Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Critically Endangered (CR)
• Literature : Prasad. K & A. Narayana Swamy (2014). Rhynchosia ravii (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae), a new species from Andhra Pradesh, India. Phytotaxa 175 (3): 155–160
• 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 ravii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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