• 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) : Tephrosia spinosa (L.f.) Pers.
• Common name : Wild Indigo
• Vernacular name : Mullu kollingii (Kannada)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Key identification features : Thorny shrub
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, Pudukkottai district, Ramanathapuram district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Thanjavur district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Java
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 spinosa. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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