Common name: Scurfy Pea, Blackdot, Malaysian Scurfpea • Hindi: Babachi, Babchi, Bakuchi, Bavanchi, Bawchi • Malayalam: cottam, karkokil, karkokilari • Marathi: bavanchi, babachi, babchi • Sanskrit: Babachi, Babchi, Bakuchi, Bavachi • Tamil: கற்பகரிசி Karpakarici , Karpogam, கற்பூரவரிசி Karpuvarici, Kavothi • Telugu: Bavanchalu • Urdu: Babechi
Botanical name: Cullen corylifolium Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Psoralea corylifolia, Cullen corylifolia
Scurfy Pea is an erect, annual herb generally found in peninsular India.
Leaves are simple, roundish-ovate, undulating-toothed. Stipules are narrow
lance-shaped, recurved. Flowers are borne in dense spike-like racemes on
long solitary stalks in leaf axils. Flower-stalks are much shorter than the
sepals. Flowers are small, pale lilac, with the wings and keel dark purple-
tipped. Scurfy Pea flowers in the cold season. Found flowering: January.
Identification credit: Prashant Awale
| Photographed near Pashan Lake, Pune, Maharashtra. |
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