• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Robinia candida Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tephrosia candida (Roxb.) DC.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, also degraded forests areas
• Key identification features : Flowers white
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 25-11-2018
• Collection Nos : HJCB-1847
• Collection Locality : Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Sambalpur district, Angul district, Gajapati district, Bargarh district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
• World Distribution : Tropics of the World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Herbarium specimen from Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala
• 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=Tephrosia candida. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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