Herbarium JCB

Homonoia riparia Lour.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Homonoia riparia
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Homonoia riparia Lour.
Vernacular name : Jalaveetasah, Vetasah (San.); Jalbent (Hin.); Sannapaashanabeda, Holenage, Narganagile (Kan.);
Collection Nos : CJS 12591 (male); 12214 (female), KFP 12743
Key identification features : A large shrub or a small tree common on river beds, dioecious. Leaves are simple, linear-lanceolate, up to 20 cm long, 3 cm wide, with yellow scales beneath. Flowers are small on spikate inflorescence, male flowers pink whereas females are brownish and sessile. Fruit is a schizocarp of 3 cocci.
Habit : Shrub
Native : India, Sri Lanka, South-east Asia
Comments : Planted as an erosion retardant in Sumatra. Ropes are made from bark in China (Mabberley,1997).
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Mysore, Udupi
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi