• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Glycine labialis L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Glycine labialis L.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Teramnus labialis (L.f.) Spreng.
• Vernacular name : Moosha parna, Kadu uddu (Kannada); Mashaparni (Sanskrit); Mashaparni, Anti Mapal (Telugu); Ran-udid (Marathi); Mashoni, Mashparui (Hindi); Cherukattuzhunnu, Kattualandu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Common on hedges. On plains to 900m on thickets by forest border
• Key identification features : Slender twining herb
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/12/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-395
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Angul district, Balasore district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Boudh district, Cuttack district, Deogarh district, Dhenkanal district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Kandhamal district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Khurda district, Koraput district, Malkangiri district, Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Rayagada district, Sambalpur district, Sundergarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• 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; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Teramnus labialis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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