• 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) : Rhynchosia sericea Span. non Hook. & Arn. 1853
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Open areas in semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : October-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district,
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district, The Nilgiri 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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 rothii. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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