- 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 monilifer L.
- Synonym(s) : Alysicarpus monilifer var. cuddapahensis S.M.Almeida & M.R.Almeida
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Alysicarpus monilifer (L.) DC.
- Vernacular name :
- Kaasukkodi (Tamil)
- Amera (Telugu)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Mixed deciduous, open forests, also in plains
- Comments / notes : On plains and along poor rocky grounds.
- Key identification features : Prostrate herb in dry places; Stems striate, with few scattered brown hairs. Flowers alternate, binate, on distant raised collars on rachis, bracteate. Pods moniliform, 4-5 segmented, segments almost fully exserted except the basal one segment which is partly covered by persistant calyx lobes.
- Flower, Fruit : September-January
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, S.P.S. Nellore district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Chandrapur district
- Odisha : Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Panna, Chhatarpur
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- 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 : Agatti Islands, Kavaratti Islands, Minicoy Islands
- Native : Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Lakshadweep Islands, Maldives, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Lakshadweep Islands, Maldives, Myanmar, Niger, Pakistan, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Australia, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- 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
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan
- 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
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Flora of Davanagere
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
- N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
- Read more :
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- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Alysicarpus monilifer. Downloaded on 31 January 2026.
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