• 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) : Croton malabaricus Bedd.
• Vernacular name : Aneikuru (Kannada); Chunnambumaram, Kolavanchi, Pambaram, Thenadal (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Planted
• Key identification features : Flowers white in erect racemes; petals absent in female flowers.
• Flower, Fruit : April-November
• Collection Nos : HFP 552
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest 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 Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Sasidharan, N. 2011.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=Croton malabaricus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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