Herbarium JCB

Breynia retusa (Dennst.) Alston

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Phyllanthaceae
Species : Breynia retusa
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Breynia retusa (Dennst.) Alston
Vernacular name : Kanmbogi (San.)
Collection Nos : CJS 9619, CJS 18970
Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
Key identification features : A diffuse shrub or a small tree. Leaves are simple, distichous, glaucous beneath and drying black above. Flowers are axillary, small, brownish-yellow and pendulous appearing with young leaves. Perianth faintly six-lobed, pale-green colour and top-shaped. Disk is thick and glandular, lying immediately below the perianth lobes in male flowers. Perianth is accrescent in fruit and saucer like. Fruit is a capsule, brilliant orange-red when ripe.
Habit : Shrub
Native : South-east Asia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Bannerghatta forest (Bangalore)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Uttara Kannada, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere