• 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 tetragonolobus Edgew.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open forests and wasteland
• Comments / notes : Common among grasses
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Krishna district
  • Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : BLG, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan
• 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; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi, Seetharam ET AL., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; N.P. Singh, 1988 – flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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 tetragonolobus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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