- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Cantharospermum albicans Wight & Arn.
- Synonym(s) : Cajanus albicans (Wight & Arn.) Maesen; Cajanus wightii Graham ex Wight & Arn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cajanus albicans (Wight & Arn.) Maesen
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Climbing shrub
- Habitat : Deciduous, scrub forests and on road sides
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1400m. in dry places
- Key identification features : Climbing shrub; stem bluish grey
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K.Swamy, K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 27/11/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0233
- Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Dharmapuri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Atylosia albicans. 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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