Herbarium JCB

Reidia floribunda Wight

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(SPURGE FAMILY)
Family (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthaceae
Species : Reidia floribunda
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus wightianus Muell.-Arg.
Collection Nos : HJCB-0037; KFP 2478
Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R. & K.R.K.Swamy; C.J.Saldanha & S.R.Ramesh
Collection Date : 13/09/14; 05/09/1978
Collection Locality : Melpatti Reserve Forest, Vellore district, Tamil Nadu State; B.R.Hills, Chamarajnagar distict, Karnataka State
Endemism : South India
Habitat : Mixed forest
Key identification features : Leaves dark-green above, glaucous below. Flowers reddish, fruits pendulous, reddish.
Habit : Undershrub
Flower, Fruit : Throughout the Year
Comments : On hills up to 1000 m and above, as an undergrowth on the floor of moist deciduous to evergreen forests in sholas. The taxa was reported from Melpatti by Gamble in Flora of Madras Presidency, 1925. Our collection from Melpatti is after 90 years.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : B.R.Hills (Chamarajnagar district) (Karnataka State); Melpatti R.F., Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district, former North Arcot), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district) (Tamil Nadu State)
World Distribution : India
Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Gamble, J.S., Flora of Madras Presidency. 2: (1293). 1925
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=Reidia floribunda. Downloaded on 27 June 2024.