- 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 tuberosum Willd.
- Synonym(s) : Desmodium tuberosum (Roxb. ex Willd.) G.Don
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pueraria tuberosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) DC.
- Common name : Tuberous Honey Suckle, Indian kudzu
- Vernacular name :
- Ban kumra, Patal kumra, Bharda, Bidari Kand, Vidarikand, Suraal (Hindi)
- Gumadi gida, Dari gida, Bidrekanda gida (Kannada)
- Dari gummadi (Telugu)
- Bhui Kakharu, Handiphuta, Bhui kumra, Patal kumra, Mardamal (Oria)
- Vidari (Sanskrit)
- Muthuku (Malayalam)
- Baraali kund (Nepali)
- Habit : Liana
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional in clumps along ghat roads up to 1200m. Tubers are highly medicinal
- Key identification features : Large climber; roots tuberous
- Flower, Fruit : December-June
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Sing, Navendu Page, K. Sankara Rao
- Collection Date : 23/03/2016
- Collection Nos : HJCB-0629
- Collection Locality : Yercaud-Salem Ghat road, Salem district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Mysuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Raigad district, Thane district
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Angul district, Koraput district, Nayagarh district, Puri district, Dhenkanal district, Sambalpur district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Salem district, Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district
- Puducherry : Puducherry
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- West Bengal : Purulia
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan
- 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 et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- 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.
- Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 94
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pueraria tuberosa. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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