- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
- Species : Croton bonplandianus
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Croton bonplandianus Baill.
- Vernacular name : Utti gida (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : KFP 1579, CJS 10813, R.R.Rao 7
- 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 mostly terminal, both male and female flowers are on the same branch. Flowers small, inconspicuous; male flowers with both sepals and petals, whereas female flowers have only sepals. Stamens many. Fruit three-lobed, dehiscing into single seeded bits.
- Habit : Undershrub
- Native : Temperate South America
- Comments : Common roadside weed in plains
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bellary, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Tumkur, Udupi
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
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