- 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) : Crotalaria bidiei Gamble
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria alata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
- Common name : Wing-stemmed Rattled wort
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Common
- Key identification features : Stems and leaves clothed below the short, silky pubescence; Flowers yellow; Pods linear oblong, glabrous.
- Flower, Fruit : July-February
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page, K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 23/03/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0604
- Collection Locality : BSI Orchidarium, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Srikakulam district
- Kerala : Kannur district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, The Nilgiri district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Coochbehar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur
- Himachal Pradesh : Chamba district, Kangra district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
- Literature :
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Flora of Himachal Pradesh. Volume 1, Botanical Survey of India, 1984. Pg.: 195
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria alata. Downloaded on 19 February 2025.
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