• 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 :
  • Odabrini (Hindi)
• 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 :
  • 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=Smithia sensitiva. Downloaded on 26 July 2024.

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