Sophora violacea

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Sophoreae
Genus: Sophora
Sectio: S. sect. Sophora
Series: S. ser. Rubriflorae
Species: Sophora violacea
Name

Sophora violacea Thwaites
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Sophora rubriflora P.C.Tsoong Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 19:159.

References

G. H. K. Thwaites & J. D. Hooker, Enum. pl. zeyl. 94. 1859
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Sophora violacea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Sophora violacea[3] (S. rubriflora [4]) grows naturally in the west of the Sri Lanka from north to south east and Java[5]
References

Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 94. 1859
PC Tsoong and Ma (1981) Acta phytotax Sinica 19 143 167
Yákovlev, GP. 1967. Zametki po sistematike i geographii roda Sophora L. i blizkikh rodov. Trudy Leningradskogo khimico-farmacevticheskogo instituta. 21:42-62
Plant List
A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon [1980] edited by M.D. Dassanayake and F.R. Fosberg vol.I, p.440