Herbarium JCB

Crotalaria verrucosa L.

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) : Crotalaria verrucosa L.
Common name : Blue Rattle Pod, Blue Rattleweed, Blue-Flowered Rattlepod, Sweet Pea, Tooth-Leaved Rattlepod, Warty Crotalaria, Warty Rattlebox
Vernacular name : Kilu kiuppai, Salangaichedi (Tamil); Gilli Gicha (Telugu); Sonapushpi (Sanskrit); Kilukiluppa (Malayalam)
Habit : Undershrub
Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and plains near moist places
Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 600m, abundant on river banks.
Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Krishna district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kolar district, Mandya district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Puri district, Kandhamal district, Keonjhar district, Nayagarh district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
World Distribution : Pantropical
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District;N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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 verrucosa. Downloaded on 8 February 2025.