- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Hedysarum motorium Houtt.
- Synonym(s) : Desmodium motorium (Houtt.) Merr.; Hedysarum motorium Houtt.; Codariocalyx gyrans (L.f.) Hassk.; Codariocalyx gyrans var. roylei (Wight & Arn.) Schindl.; Codariocalyx motorius var. glaber X.Y.Zhu & Y.F.Du; Codariocalyx motorius var. roylei (Wight & Arn.) Ohashi; Desmodium gyrans (L.f.) DC.; Desmodium gyrans var. roylei (Wight & Arn.) Baker; Desmodium roylei Wight & Arn.; Hedysarum gyrans L.f.; Hedysarum saliens Salisb.; Meibomia gyrans (L.f.) Kuntze; Pseudarthria gyrans (L.f.) Hassk.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Codariocalyx motorius (Houtt.) H.Ohashi
- Common name : Telegraph Plant, Indian Telegraph Plant
- Vernacular name :
- Aelemudure, Naagathagare, Nagar gare (Kannada)
- Tozhunganni, Thandichedi, Tolukanni (Tamil)
- Nagathakara, Ramanamapacha, Thozhukanni (Malayalam)
- Nageswar, Ban chandal (Bengali)
- Dudli (Hindi)
- Thozhuganni, Touganni (Telugu)
- Tuani-themtang (Mizo)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional in hills as an undergrowth along stream banks up to 1000m; The Telegraph plant owes its name to the fact that the leaflets especially the lateral ones when exposed to sunlight exhibit spontaneous jerky movements. Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental.
- Key identification features : Erect undershrub
- Flower, Fruit : August-February
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 17/09/1980
- Collection Nos : KFP 12259
- Collection Locality : Bannerghatta
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Kandhamal district, Nayagarh district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- 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
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 105
- GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 3. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 670
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Codariocalyx motorius. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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