- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Crotalaria macrophylla Willd.
- Synonym(s) : Flemingia congesta W.T.Aiton; Maughania macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Kuntze ex Merr.
- Vernacular name :
- Barasalpan (Hindi)
- Thutokur, Thulikur, Gariguri (Oria)
- Kamatteri, Korkattachedi (Malayalam)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Mixed deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Comments / notes : Occasional clumps, especially on cleared slopes.
- Key identification features : A small shrub, flowers streaked with purple and yellow
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 23/03/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0586
- Collection Locality : Karidyur, Yercaud Hills, Salem district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
- Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- West Bengal : Darjeeling district, Jalpaiguri district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- 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
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- 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 Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
- 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=Flemingia macrophylla. Downloaded on 14 October 2024.
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