- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Fabaceae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Hedysarum triquetrum L.
- Synonym(s) : Aeschynomene triquetra A.St.-Hil. ex Steud.; Desmodium acrocarpum Hance; Desmodium auriculatum DC.; Desmodium triquetrum (L.) DC.; Hedysarum auriculatum Link; Hedysarum triquetrum L.; Heteroloma auriculatum Desv. ex DC.; Meibomia triquetra (L.) Kuntze; Pteroloma auriculatum (DC.) Schindl.; Pteroloma auriculatum Desv. ex DC.; Pteroloma triquetrum (L.) Benth.; Tadehagi andamanicum (N.P.Balakr. & N.G.Nair) S.P.Mathew; Tadehagi auriculatum (DC.) H.Ohashi; Tadehagi triquetrum subsp. andamanicum N.P.Balakr. & N.G.Nair; Tadehagi triquetrum subsp. auriculatum (DC.) H.Ohashi; Tadehagi triquetrum var. palawanensis H.Ohashi
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Tadehagi triquetrum (L.) H.Ohashi
- Vernacular name :
- Doddotte (Kannada)
- Dammidi (Telugu)
- Salaparni (Oria)
- Adakkapaanal, Adakkachokki (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests, and plains
- Key identification features : Petiole winged
- Flower, Fruit : July-March
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Y.S.R. Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, S.P.S. Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Visakhapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mahbubnagar district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Chamarajanagara district, Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagere district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Thane district
- Odisha : Angul district, Balasore district, Bargarh district, Balangir district, Boudh district, Cuttack district, Deogarh district, Dhenkanal district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Kalahandi district, Kandhamal district, Kendrapara district, Kendujhar district, Khordha district, Koraput district, Malkangiri district, Mayurbhanj district, Puri district, Rayagada district, Sambalpur district, Sundargarh district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kancheepuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Jalpaiguri
- Himachal Pradesh : Kangra district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,South Andaman, Ritchie\'s Archipelago taluk (Havelock Island), Rongat streams and Bomlungta
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, 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
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- 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 Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri district
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 151
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 203
- Read more :
- Permalink : http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Desmodium triquetrum
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Desmodium triquetrum. Downloaded on 27 January 2026.
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