- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
- Basionym : Symphyllia mallotiformis Müll.Arg.
- Synonym(s) : Adenochlaena indica (Bedd.) Bedd. ex Hook.f.; Cephalocroton indicus Bedd.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Epiprinus mallotiformis (Müll.Arg.) Croizat
- Vernacular name : Karinjikada (Tamil); Karinjikkada (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1000m, in sholas and evergreen patches.
- Flower, Fruit : November-February
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Sringeshwara & Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 30-10-2018
- Collection Nos : HJCB-1522
- Collection Locality : Thollayiram kandi forest, Wayanad district, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Namakkal district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan, A L 2009.Check List 5(3):542-569; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- 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=Epiprinus mallotiformis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.
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