- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Cytisus cajan L.
- Synonym(s) : Cajanus indicus Spreng.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.
- Common name : Pigeon Pea, Congo Pea, Red gram
- Vernacular name : Arhar, Tur, Arhi (Hindi); Thogari bele, Thogari gida (Kannada); Thuvarai (Tamil); Kandulu (Telugu); Arhar, Kandul (Oria); Adhaki (Sanskrit); Adhaki, Kakshi, Thuvara, Thuvaraparippu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Cultivated
- Comments / notes : Mostly cultivated for their protein rich pods, sometimes as an escape
- Key identification features : Erect srhub
- Flower, Fruit : June-February
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Native : Africa
- World Distribution : In Tropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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.
- 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=Cajanus cajan. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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