- 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) : Abrus pulchellus Thwaites
- Vernacular name : Valiya kaattumuthira (Malayalam)
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests also dry deciduous forests and plains
- Key identification features : A wiry climber; podsflat and seed compressed, black
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Krishna district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, South Africa, Bhutan, Bangladesh, China
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District ; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- 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=Abrus pulchellus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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