• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PUTRANJIVACEAE
• Basionym : Laneasagum oblongifolium Bedd.
• Synonym(s) : Cyclostemon macrophyllus var. penincularis Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Drypetes oblongifolia (Bedd.) Airy Shaw
• Vernacular name : Malampayin (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Uncommon in mid elevation evergreen forests from Kodagu to Kanyakumari; elevation 200-1300m.
• Key identification features : Bole fluted; bark lenticellate; Flowers fascicled on old wood, female solitary.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collection Nos : KFP 8059, HFP 77, HFP 1349
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanyakumari district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Peninsular India
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats.
• 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=Drypetes oblongifolia. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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