• 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 capitata Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist areas in grasslands
• Key identification features : Annual herb; flowers bluish
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 2186, HFP 2275
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; 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 capitata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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