• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Antidesma pubescens Roxb.; Antidesma paniculatum Blume
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Antidesma ghaesembilla Gaertn.
• Common name : Black currant tree
• Vernacular name : Amti, Umtoa (Hindi); Pulli purase (Kannada); Pulichamaram (Tamil); Suankali, Nuniari, Jamula, Khath marmuri (Oria); Puttam, Polari, Lona, Khath pulitsi, Janupulisaru, Pulleru (Telugu); Kattupulinchi, Poothuruval (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Mixed forests
• Comments / notes : On hills to 1200m.
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Raja K. Swamy & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0084
• Collection Locality : Tirumal Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district, Chittoor district, Kurnool district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : India to Malaysia
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, South China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia, North Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Antidesma ghaesembilla. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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