• 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 sanjappae S.Chavan , Sardesai & Pokle
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along roadsides, in grassy areas and in open, dry and waste places
• Comments / notes : Dry and waste places, especially on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats
• Key identification features : Prostrate herb, glabrous, herbaceous, strigose with a line of hairs. Leaves 1- and 3-foliolate. Calyx sepals lanceolate, strigose only on the margins and only posterior lobe strigosely hairy at base, 6 – 9 × 1.6 – 2 mm. Corolla yellow with red tinge. Pods 6 – 8 mm long, glabrous, as long as calyx or slightly exerted. Seeds 1.6 – 1.8 × 1 – 1.3 mm.
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Nasik, Zari Ghat (Nashik district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Data Deficient (DD)
• Literature : Shantanu Chavan, M. M. Sardesai & D. S. Pokle. (2012). Alysicarpus sanjappae (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from the Western Ghats of India. Kew Bulletin 68: 183 – 186.
• 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 sanjappae. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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