• 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 fusiformis Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
• Vernacular name : Khirkanchan (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub forests
• Flower, Fruit : March-June
• Collector(s) Name : K. Sankara Rao, Arun Singh & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 19/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-178
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Dakshina Kannada district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Odisha : Nayagarh district, Bargarh district, Sambalpur district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere 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 fusiformis. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.

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