• Family : Fabaceae
  (Pea Or Bean Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : PALASH FAMILY (पलाश फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Fabaceae
• Synonym(s) : Crotalaria falcata Schumach. & Thonn.; Crotalaria guineensis D.Dietr.; Crotalaria leopoldvillensis De Wild.; Crotalaria macrostipula Steud. ex A.Rich.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Crotalaria goreensis Guill. & Perr.
• Common name : Gamba pea, Gamba-pea, Gambia pea, Rattlepod
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : In waste places
• Comments / notes : Stems herbaceous, woody below, or an undershrub to 5 ft. high, with a woody taproot
• Key identification features : Flowers yellow, turning reddish
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Dehradun district
• Native : Angola, Benin, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Si
• Exotic/Native : Exotic
• World Distribution : Bismarck Archipelago, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, French Guiana, Guyana, Madagascar, Malaya, Nauru, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Thailand, Western Australia
• Literature : Photographs of K. Sankara Rao
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Crotalaria goreensis. Downloaded on 3 December 2023.

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