• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Cleidion spiciflorum auct. non (Burm.f.) Merr.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cleidion javanicum Blume
• Vernacular name : Yellari (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : This species has so far been reported in the northeastern states, throughout the Western Ghats and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Ravikumar & Balachandran reported from Visakhapatnam as new repots to the district and state of Andhra Pradesh.
• Key identification features : Tall tree to 10m heigh; bark ashy brown, smooth. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblanceolate, cuneate at base, abruptly acuminate at apex, distantly crenate, glabrous above, domatia along the nerve axis beneath. Female flowers solitary, axillary; styles 2, each divided into 2 filiform arms. Capsules usually didymous.
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Minumuluru (Vishakapatnam district) (Andhra Pradesh State)
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Literature : Ravikumar & Balachandran-2014, Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(8): 6108–6121; 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=Cleidion javanicum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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