• Family : FABACEAE
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
• Subfamily : Faboideae
• Basionym : Hedysarum strobiliferum L.
• Synonym(s) : Flemingia affinis C.Presl; Hedysarum celtifolium Salisb.; Maughania strobilifera (L.) J.St.-Hil. ex Kuntze; Maughania strobilifera f. rubriflora Kuntze; Zornia strobilifera (L.) Pers.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Flemingia strobilifera (L.) W.T.Aiton
• Common name : Wild Hops
• Vernacular name :
  • Kussunt, Kusrunt (Hindi)
  • Kanpoothi (Kannada)
  • Nallabaddu (Telugu)
  • Simbusak (Sanskrit)
  • Kanala, Kumalu, Kumbilteri (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Mixed forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in mixed forests and shaded ravines in hilly areas
• Key identification features : Much branched scandent shrub with white flowers
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 27/02/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0552; CS 1134
• Collection Locality : Barbera forest, Khurda district (OD)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : Purulia
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,South Andaman
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, S
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, 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
  • 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
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
  • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • 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: 150
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Flemingia strobilifera. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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