- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Cracca villosa L.; Galega villosa (L.) L.
- Synonym(s) : Tephrosia hirta (Buch.-Ham.) Benth.; Tephrosia incana (Roxb.) Wight & Arn.; Galega hirta Buch.-Ham.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Tephrosia villosa (L.) Pers.
- Common name : Shaggy wild Indigo
- Vernacular name :
- Nugu vempali, Nogu vempali (Telugu)
- Banokulthia, Kulthia, Sroeto kolathiya (Oria)
- Barbaria (Sanskrit)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Common on dry, gravelly, sandy and other soils in open places of the Ridges and in watse grounds
- Comments / notes : Occasional in plains to 600m in wastelands and in poor soil. Gregarious in disturbed ground. Roots are used in medicine
- Flower, Fruit : June-October
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Guntur district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Common in open wasteland
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Puducherry : Puducherry
- West Bengal : Birbhum
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Southeast Asia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- 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.
- Maheshwari K.J (1963). Flora of Delhi: 121
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tephrosia villosa. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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