• 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 retusa L.
• Common name : Common Rattle Pod, Big Yellow Pupbush, Cascabelillo, Large Yellow Rattlebox, Rattlebox, Rattlewee, Wedge-Leaf Rattlepod, Yellow Lupin
• Vernacular name : Khunkhuniyan, Ghunghunnian (Hindi); Gejje gida (Kannada); Ghagri (Tamil); Potti-giligicha (Telugu); Shanapushpi (Sanskrit); Chana, Kilukilikki, Kilikiluppa, Mathru-ghathini, Thanthalakkotti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Open deciduous forests and scrub forest near moist places
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains and river banks to 1200m.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Raja K. Swamy & Navendu Page; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K.Swamy & Arun Singh
• Collection Date : 26-02-2016; 19-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-327; HJCB-0146
• Collection Locality : Chilika to Bhubaneswar, Khurda district (OD); Palamner forest range, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district, Koraput district, Cuttack district, Khurda district, Subarnapur district, Puri district, Dhenkanal district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Dharmapuri district, Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : Southeast Asia
• World Distribution : All tropics of the World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2001 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; 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; Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
• 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 retusa. Downloaded on 4 May 2024.

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