• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Alysicarpus rugosus var. pilifer Prain
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Alysicarpus scariosus var. pilifer (Prain) A.Pramanik & Thoth.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, dry deciduous and scrub forests
• Key identification features : Small herb
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 6477, KFP 10023
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Ramanathapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 scariosus var. pilifer. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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