- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Glycine involucrata Wall.
- Synonym(s) : Shuteria vestita var. involucrata (Wall.) Baker; Shuteria sinensis Hemsl.; Shuteria suffulta var. sinensis (Hemsl.) Niyomdham
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Shuteria involucrata (Wall.) Wight & Arn.
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, often in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1200m. Grows in dense masses on thickets by forest border.
- Key identification features : Slender hairy climber with purple flowers
- Flower, Fruit : November-April
- Collection Nos : KFP 5558, KFP 11241
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Malesia, China
- 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
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Shuteria involucrata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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