• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Dolichos umbellatus Thunb.
• Synonym(s) : Phaseolus calcaratus Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi
• Common name : Rice Bean
• Vernacular name : Bano-mungo (Oria); Sutri, Bir Mungo (Sanskrit); Sutri (Hindi); Kattuzhunnu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Rayagada district, Kalhandi district, KHG
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : Cultivated in the plains of Tropics
• 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; 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 umbellata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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