• 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 Plant List) : Crotalaria madurensis Wight & Arn.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Shola forests, grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Madurai district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka, Vol. 1; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Crotalaria madurensis. Downloaded on 7 May 2024.

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