Herbarium JCB

Securinega leucopyrus (Willd.) Mull.Arg.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Phyllanthaceae
Species : Securinega leucopyrus
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Flueggea leucopyrus Willd.
Common name : Spinous Fluggea
Vernacular name : Pandurhaphali, Bhooriphali (San.); Harratto, Aenta (Hin.); Bilishooli gida, Gudale gida (Kan.)
Collection Nos : CJS 14082, KFP 7294, KFP 2539
Key identification features : A large shrub with angular branches, leafy and terminate in sharp spines. Leaves are simple, alternate and ovate. Flowers are unisexual, small (less than 1 cm), fragrant and apetalous. Male flowers appear in axillary clusters. Fruit is small, globose, smooth and white in colour. Occassional in deciduous forests.
Habit : Shrub
Native : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
Comments : Flowers and fruits appear on a thorn-like short branch.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg