- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Hedysarum repandum Vahl
- Synonym(s) : Desmodium scalpe DC.; Desmodium strangulatum Wight & Arn.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Hylodesmum repandum (Vahl) H.Ohashi & R.R.Mill
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Moist and shaded places of deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : In moist places on hills above 1000m and in partial shade. Also abundant in Shola
- Key identification features : Erect herb; flowers red
- Flower, Fruit : October-April
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district, Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Bangalore
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : Angola, Borneo, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China, Comoros, Bhutan, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Moza
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2
- 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
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Desmodium repandum. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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