• 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 gracilis Benth.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Key identification features : Diffuse slender perennial herb; flowers yellow
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : CJS 18337
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; 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 gracilis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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