- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria prostrata Rottler ex Willd.
- Vernacular name :
- Serigally gista (Telugu)
- Vishnukarni (Oria)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Mixed and Sal forest, also Tropical moist deciduous forests and in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to dry slopes to 750m.
- Key identification features : Leaves obovate oblong, red hairy on the lower surface; Flowers yellow; Pod oblong, glabrous.
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page
- Collection Date : 25-02-2016, 25-02-2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0506; HJCB-0498
- Collection Locality : Mahanadi Wildlife Sanctuary, Nyagarh district (OD)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Prakasam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Kolar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kangra district, Shimla district
- 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, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Thailand, 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 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
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 197
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria prostrata. Downloaded on 17 May 2025.
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