• 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 dracunculoides Lam.
• Vernacular name : Bili kaddi (Kannada); Tillakada
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and plains
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, East Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nizamabad district
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
• World Distribution : West Asia to North Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3. pp. 951; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore 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=Euphorbia dracunculoides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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