• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Synonym(s) : Cajanus rugosus (Wight & Arn.) Maesen
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cajanus rugosus (Wight & Arn.) Maesen
• Habit : Climber
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : On hills up to 1600m.
• Flower, Fruit : October-February
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 04/10/1970
• Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 1027
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
• 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 rugosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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