• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Agrostistachys indica Dalzell
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Key identification features : Leaves strongly serrate, often spiny.
• Flower, Fruit : February-March
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha; C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 12485 (male), CJS 15907 (female)
• Collection Locality : Road to Devarunde (Hassan); Bisle Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
• Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Agrostistachys indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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