- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(SPURGE FAMILY)
- Family (as per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
- Species : Croton bonplandianus
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Croton bonplandianus Baill.
- Common name : Railway Weed, Riverside Weed
- Vernacular name : Utti gida (Kan.); Reil poondu, Aatthuppoondu (Tam.); Railpondu, Pichhi chettu, Galli vena chettu (Tel.); Ban mirchi, Ban mircho (Ori.)
- Key identification features : A perennial subshrub up to 1 m high, branching from the base. Leaves are simple, alternate, lanceolate with blunt-toothed margin. Inflorescence is mostly terminal, the male and female flowers are on same branch. Flowers are small, inconspicuous; male flowers with both sepals and petals, whereas female flowers have only sepals. Stamens many. Fruit is three-lobed, dehiscing into single seeded bits.
- Habit : Undershrub
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the Year
- Comments : An introduced species. Widely naturalized in wastelands, forest clearings, degraded ghats, village side and in plains of fallow lands. A ready colonizer.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
- World Distribution : Temperate South America; Naturalized in tropics
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District ; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District ; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Croton bonplandianus. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.
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