- 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 mucronata Desv.; Crotalaria striata DC.; Crotalaria striata DC. var. acutifolia Trimen
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria pallida Aiton
- Common name : American Crotalaria, Brusquillo, Cascabelitos, Ding Ding, Salts Rattlebox, Smooth Crotalaria, Smooth Rattlepod, Streaked Rattlepod, Striped Crotalaria
- Vernacular name :
- Sensan (Hindi)
- Junjunka (Oria)
- Kilukkachedi, Kilukilikki, Kilukkampettichedi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Degraded forest areas, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Introduced in plains and in banks to 1000m.
- Key identification features : Glabrescent undershrub; flowers yellow
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 25-11-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1849
- Collection Locality : Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mandya district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Mananthavady (Tholpetty), All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Comoros, Congo, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., H
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere
- Herbarium specimen from Kanthallor, Idukki district, Kerala.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria pallida. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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