Herbarium JCB

Smithia blanda Wall. ex Wight & Arn.

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) : Unresolved name
Common name : Yam Bean
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands
Key identification features : Decumbent herb
Flower, Fruit : October-January
Collection Nos : Talbot 3065, KFP 9535
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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 blanda. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.