• 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 bupleurifolium L.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Alysicarpus bupleurifolius (L.) DC.
• Vernacular name :
  • Kaasukkodi (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests, plains, in grasslands
• Comments / notes : On stream banks in shade or on exposed slopes among grass. Common in open forests
• Key identification features : Slender perennial herb
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Collector(s) Name : S.R. Ramesh, S.B. Manohar
• Collection Date : 24/10/1978
• Collection Nos : KFP 3838
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Common weed
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Kancheepuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Panna, Chhatarpur
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : West Bengal
  • Himachal Pradesh : Kangra 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
  • Lakshadweep : Kalpeni Islands, Kavaratti Islands
• Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
  • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
  • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
  • 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
  • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Flora of Udupi
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Flora of Davanagere
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
  • C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
  • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 180
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
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• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Alysicarpus bupleurifolius. Downloaded on 18 March 2026.

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