• 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) : Alysicarpus longifolius (Spreng.) Wight & Arn.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common in grazing grounds and open forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Raichur district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
• 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=Alysicarpus longifolius. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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