• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Croton umbellatus Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Blachia calycina Benth.
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Key identification features : Leaves elliptic rounded, male flowers in racemes, female flowers solitary.
• Flower, Fruit : January-March
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha: Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
• Collection Date : 13-01-2019
• Collection Nos : CJS 15803, CJS 16559; HJCB-2258
• Collection Locality : Maranahalli, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan); Mancholai forest, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• 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; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
• 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=Blachia calycina. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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