• 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 grahamianus Wight & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vigna grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Verdc.
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Slender climber with deltoid leaflets
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Dindigul district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• 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; 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 grahamiana. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

Botanical Description