- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Desmodium rufescens DC.
- Synonym(s) : Doodia hamosa Roxb.; Uraria hamosa (Roxb.) Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Uraria rufescens (DC.) Schindl.
- Vernacular name :
- Salphani, Salparni (Oria)
- Moovila (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Valley forests, deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional in clumps on hills above 750m.
- Key identification features : Straggling undershrub
- Flower, Fruit : August-January
- Collector(s) Name : K.P. Sreenath, B.Gurudev Singh
- Collection Date : 10/11/1979
- Collection Nos : KFP 10354
- Collection Locality : Nagarhole
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Thane district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Bargarh district, Gajapati district, Sambalpur district, Bolangir district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Jalpaiguri district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam : Assam
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sulawesi, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sulawesi, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- 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
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam 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
- 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=Uraria rufescens. 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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