• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Galega pumila Lam.
• Synonym(s) : Tephrosia purpurea var. pumila (Lam.) "Baker, p.p."; Tephrosia procumbens (Buch.-Ham.) Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tephrosia pumila (Lam.) Pers.
• Vernacular name : Vampali (Telugu); Moishia Kolathya (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Roadsides, scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On plains to 750m along wastelands, fallow fields and wayside
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Vishakapatnam district, Krishna district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Bolangir district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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.
• 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 pumila. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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