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Crotalaria digitata is a species of plant endemic to India.
This plant was originally collected by Robert Wight in 1829 from the hills around Madurai in Tamil Nadu and named it Crotalaria tomentosa. Hook found that the name already exists for another species and hence renamed it to Crotalaria digitata in 1831. This species was rediscovered from the original Madurai hills again in 2007 after 178 years of its original discovery. A collection from Suntikoppa in Karnataka was initially identified as Crotalaria digitata was later found to be Crotalaria grahamiana, hence confirming the distribution of this species to the hills around Madurai.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crotalaria digitata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
