• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Hedysarum cuneifolium Roth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Taverniera cuneifolia (Roth) Ali
• Vernacular name : Jethmadh (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional in waste places
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bellary district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district, Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Jagatsinghpur district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Orient
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
• 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=Taverniera cuneifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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