- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LEGUMINOSAE
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Robinia candida Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tephrosia candida (Roxb.) DC.
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, also degraded forests areas
- Key identification features : Flowers white
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 25-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1847
- Collection Locality : Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Kerala : Idukki district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Sambalpur district, Angul district, Gajapati district, Bargarh district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
- World Distribution : Tropics of the World
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; 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; Herbarium specimen from Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala
- 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=Tephrosia candida. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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