• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Phaseolus adenanthus G.Mey.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vigna adenantha (G.Mey.) Marechal & al.
• Vernacular name : Kadu hesave (Kannada); Karalasana (Telugu); Karalsona (Tamil)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Coastal areas along the banks of backwaters
• Comments / notes : Naturalised, often cultivated
• Key identification features : Perennial, root tuberous
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Mayurbhanj district, Keonjhar district, Puri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : South America
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Vigna adenantha. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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