• 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) : Crotalaria tecta sensu Trimen non Roth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Crotalaria montana Roth
• Vernacular name : Karibijada budde gida (Kannada)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On hills of scrub jungles and fallow fields.
• Flower, Fruit : August-April
• Distribution :
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Nayagarh district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : Tropical Asia, Australia
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar to Malaysia, China, Philippines, N.Australia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Crotalaria montana. Downloaded on 8 February 2025.

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