- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Phyllanthaceae
- Species : Breynia vitis-idaea (Burm.f.) Fischer
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Breynia vitis-idaea (Burm.f.) C.E.C.Fisch.
- Vernacular name : Kadu nugge (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 5308, KFP 1511, KFP 8938
- Collector(s) Name : N.S.Ravindra & S.R.Ramesh
- Key identification features : A shrub or a small tree growing up to 6-7 m height. Leaves are simple, elliptic to broadly ovate, glaucous beneath and drying black above. Flowers are axillary, small, greenish-yellow to pink. Male flowers are in few flowered fascicles whereas female flowers are solitary. Perianth of 6 persistant lobes. Fruit is a globose schizocarpic capsule that is red when ripe.
- Habit : Shrub
- Flower, Fruit : June-August
- Native : India, South-east Asia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Collection Locality : Devarayandurga (Tumkur)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mandya, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
- Floras referred : Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
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