- 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 caespitosa Roxb.; Crotalaria diffusa Link; Crotalaria linifolia var. pygmaea Yamam.; Crotalaria linifolia var. stenophylla (Vogel) C.Y.Yang; Crotalaria linifolia var. tecta (B.Heyne ex Roth) K.K.N.Nair; Crotalaria linkiana Steud.; Crotalaria pallida Blanco; Crotalaria pumila Blanco; Crotalaria saxatilis Zoll. & Moritzi; Crotalaria stenophylla Vogel; Crotalaria tecta B.Heyne ex Roth; Crotalaria viminea Graham ex Wight & Arn.; Crotalaria vogelii D.Dietr.; Quirosia secunda Blanco
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria linifolia L.f.
- Common name : Flax-Leaf Rattlepod, Narrow-leaved Crotalaria
- Vernacular name :
- Nallagiri giligichha (Telugu)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Moist open places and wasteland
- Comments / notes : Common among grasses
- Key identification features : Erect annual herb; Stems densely tawny-velvet-hairy; Leaves simple, linear, blunt, shortly apiculate; Flowers in racemes, yellow, short-stalked; Fruit pod ovoid, straight.
- Flower, Fruit : August-February
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, East Godavari district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district, Belagavi district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Madurai district, Tirunelveli district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Nicobar Islands
- Native : Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- Gamble, 1918. Fl. Pres. Madr. Vol. 1. pp. 294
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria linifolia. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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