• Family : CELASTRACEAE
  (Staff-Tree Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Euonymus dichotomus B.Heyne ex Wall.
• Vernacular name : Malamkutatha (Malayalam); Vini (Tamil)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Collection Nos : KFP 7540, KFP 11094
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district, Dharmapuri district, Salem district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora Mysore District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Euonymus dichotomus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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