- Family : FABACEAE
(Pea Or Bean Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Leguminosae
- Subfamily : Faboideae
- Basionym : Trifolium indicum L.
- Synonym(s) : Melilotus parviflorus Desf.; Sertula indica (L.) Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Melilotus indicus (L.) All.
- Common name : Small flowered Melilot, Indian Sweet Clover, Yellow sweet clover
- Vernacular name :
- Ban methi, Morila, Senji methi (Hindi)
- Ran methi (Marathi)
- Ban methi (Bengali)
- Ban Methi (Assamese)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : A common winter weed in moist, watse places, along rivulets and in cultivated fields
- Comments / notes : Weed of cultivated fields and wastelands; Used as green fodder
- Key identification features : Annual herb; erect, branching, sparingly pilose annual.
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Puri district, Cuttack district, Sundergarh district, Khurda district
- Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district, Thoothkudi district, Ramanathapuram district, Pudukkottai district, Thanjavur district, Tiruvallur district, Nagapattinam district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tiruvallur district
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Delhi : Vasant Kunj
- Haryana : Gurgaon district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Bhutan, Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepa
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Introduced in N. America and South Africa
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
- 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
- Maheshwari K.J (1963). Flora of Delhi: 116
- Duthie J.F.(1960). Flora of The Upper Gangetic Plain Vol.1: 191
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Melilotus indica. Downloaded on 10 October 2024.
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