• 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) : Paracroton pendulus subsp. zeylanicus (Thwaites) N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab.
• Vernacular name : Bale, Sotige (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Key identification features : Racemes usually dioecious; female racemes persistent and flowering during the next season.
• Collection Nos : KFP 120, CJS 13417, CJS 16817
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
• Native : India, Sri Lanka
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 –Flora of Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
• 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=Fahrenheitia zeylanica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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