Tephrosia tinctoria Persoon
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) : Tephrosia tinctoria Persoon
Habit : Undershrub
Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles
Comments / notes : On hills of exposed slopes, along rock crevices, forest borders up to 1000m, spreading along moist places and shola borders. Sometimes grows gregariously In dry deciduous forests after the fires.
Key identification features : Procumbent hairy herb
Flower, Fruit : October-March
Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district, East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district
Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
Odisha : Ganjam district
Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
Native : India, Sri Lanka
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
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; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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=Tephrosia tinctoria. Downloaded on 22 January 2022.
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