• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Cajanus goensis Dalzell
• Synonym(s) : Atylosia barbata Baker
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cajanus goensis Dalzell
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Key identification features : Woody twiners; pod villous
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia and China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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=Atylosia goensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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