Crotalaria linifolia L.f.

 
  • 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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