- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Fabaceae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Synonym(s) : Crotalaria montana Roxb.; Crotalaria albida var. kangrensis A.A.Ansari
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria albida Roth
- Common name : Hill Rattle wort
- Vernacular name :
- Banmethi (Hindi)
- Kondagiligichcha (Telugu)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hill clumps up to 1000m. Common throughout hill sides
- Key identification features : Diffused much branched woody plant; Flowers pale yellow; Pods oblong, glabrous.
- Flower, Fruit : September-January
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru Urban district, Bengaluru Rural district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Bankura, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur, Murshidabad, Purulia
- Himachal Pradesh : Kangra district, Kinnaur district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- 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
- 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
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan
- Saldanha, 1984
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 195
- Crotalaria India 157. 2008.
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria albida
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria albida. Downloaded on 21 January 2026.
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