• 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) : Smithia bigemina Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Key identification features : Wiry slender stem
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Collection Nos : Sedgwick 2893, Sedgwick 5847
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Smithia bigemina. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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