• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Trigonella indica L.
• Synonym(s) : Rothia trifoliata (Roth) Pers.; Dillwynia trifoliata Roth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rothia indica (L.) Druce
• Vernacular name : Bele kalu soppu (Kannada); Nucha kura (Telugu); Papra (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and foothills
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 800m and as a weed of cultivation.
• Flower, Fruit : August-April
• Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy & Arun Singh R
• Collection Date : 27/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0235
• Collection Locality : Foothills of Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and Australia
• 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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.
• 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=Rothia indica. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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