Herbarium JCB

Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Mull.Arg.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Euphorbiaceae
Species : Mallotus philippensis
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Mull.Arg.
Common name : Kamala Tree
Vernacular name : Kampillaka (San.); Sindhoor, Kamala (Hin.); Kampillaka, Kumkumada mara (Kan.)
Collection Nos : KFP 14028, CJS 12126, CJS 16617
Key identification features : Is a small size much-branched evergreen tree. Young branches are covered with short rusty hairs. Leaves are simple, ovate-lanceolate and strongly three-nerved with minute glands underneath. Flowers are unisexual, male and female flowers occurring on different trees in terminal elongate inflorescences. Male floweers are clustered whereas the female flowers are solitary. Fruit is a three-lobed orange-red small capsule.
Habit : Tree
Native : Asia
Comments : The red coating on the fruits powdered and used as bindhi.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis