- 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) : Crotalaria verrucosa L.
- Common name : Blue Rattle Pod, Blue Rattleweed, Blue-Flowered Rattlepod, Sweet Pea, Tooth-Leaved Rattlepod, Warty Crotalaria, Warty Rattlebox
- Vernacular name :
- Kilu kiuppai, Salangaichedi (Tamil)
- Gilli Gicha (Telugu)
- Sonapushpi (Sanskrit)
- Kilukiluppa (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, plains near moist places
- Comments / notes : Occasional on plains to 600m, abundant on river banks.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Krishna district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kolar district, Mandya district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Puri district, Kandhamal district, Keonjhar district, Nayagarh district
- Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
- West Bengal : Bankura, Darjeeling, Howrah, Mursidabad, 24-Parganas
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Native : Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, V
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
- 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
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria verrucosa. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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