• 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 elegans Spreng.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 600m.
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Prakasam district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Pullaiah, Ali Moulali, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 2. pp. 860; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga
• 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 elegans. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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