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Family: Papilionaceae	Genus: Crotalaria	Species: Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.( गुलाबी, औषधी ताग )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Crotalaria foliosa Willd., Crotalaria procumbens Roxb., Crotalaria virgata C.Mart.	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Gulabi	Flower Type	Raceme
English / Trade Name	Medick Rattlepod	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name	Gulabi, Aushadi taag	Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Up to 2000 m	Fruit Type	Pod
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Fruit is almost spherical, about 4 mm or less long, velvety, beaked, 2-seeded.
Habitat	Common; waste places, road sides.	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	Throughout warmer parts of India, ascending to 2000 m on Himalaya; Indomalaysia.	Bark Details	Stem is branched, sparsely velvety, hairs prostrate.
Distribution in Haryana	Gurgaon	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Compound
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Trifoliate
Description of Species	Perennial, erect or prostrate-ascending shrub, 30-80 cm high; stem and branches appressed pubescent. Leaves 3-foliate; leaflets subsessile; ovate-oblanceolae, 1.35 x 2-6 mm, obtuse to subtruncate, mucronate, glabrous above, pubescent below. Flowers yellow, 2-6, in close, terminal or leaf opposed racemes; bracts linear, acute. Corolla 3-6 mm long, less than twice as long as calyx; veaxillum pubescent outside; wing feathery; keel incurved, beaked, 2-seeded.	Leaf Details	Leaves 3-foliate; leaflets subsessile; ovate-oblanceolae, 1.35 x 2-6 mm, obtuse to subtruncate, mucronate, glabrous above, pubescent below.

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