• 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) : Euphorbia caducifolia Haines
• Vernacular name : Kirsuju (Oria); Kattejamudu (Telugu)
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Common in scrub jungles, wastelands and rocky hills
• Flower, Fruit : January-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Guntur district, Vishakapatnam district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Ganjam district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• 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=Euphorbia caducifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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