- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Synonym(s) : Indigofera trifoliata sensu Baker non L. 1753.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Indigofera prostrata Willd.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Deciduous forests, open wastelands and grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional on hills up to 1400m.
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh, Raja K.Swamy
- Collection Date : 27/11/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-159
- Collection Locality : Sadasivakona Forest, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Guntur district, Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district, KLR
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Bargarh district, Kandhamal district
- Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Salem district
- West Bengal : Bankura
- World Distribution : India, Australia
- 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
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- 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.
- 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 – Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Indigofera prostrata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Line Drawings
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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