- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Smithia sensitiva Aiton
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy grasslands
- Comments / notes : Rare in Eastern Ghats
- Key identification features : Much branched prostrate herb
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J.Saldanha, K.P.Sreenath
- Collection Date : 20/09/1979
- Collection Nos : KFP 9151
- Collection Locality : Kulur, Mangalore-Surathkal road
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Thane district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Sambalpur district, Puri district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Bankura, Birbhum, Burdwan, Darjeeling, Hooghly, Howrah, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur, 24-Parganas
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Smithia sensitiva. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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