• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Smithia dichotoma Dalzell
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Smithia salsuginea Hance
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common in open moist places.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collection Nos : KFP 4102, KFP 12087, CS 7134
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Smithia salsuginea. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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