Croton roxburghii N.P.Balakr.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (SPURGE FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Species : Croton roxburghii
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Croton persimilis Mull.Arg.
  • Common name : Devil's Goad
  • Vernacular name : Hakuma (Hin.); Bhoothala Bhairava (Kan.)
  • Key identification features : A moderate-sized deciduous tree, often gregarious. Young shoots, the branchlets, inflorescence and the sepals are clothed with minute orbicular silvery scales. Leaves are simple, oblong to lanceolate with crenate-serrate margin and crowded towards the tip of the branchlets.They turn red before falling. Flowers are pale yellow, greenish, solitary or in fasciled racemes. Males flowers are in the upper part of the raceme whereas, female flowers are in the lower part of inflorescence. Fruit is a capsule.
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Flower, Fruit : February-September
  • Comments : Occasional in forests of northern Eastern Ghats.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Gandamardhan Hills (Bargarh district), Ganjam district, Sambalpur district, Sundargarh district (Odisha State)
  • World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  • Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3 ; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa
  • 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 roxburghii. Downloaded on 27 June 2024.

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