• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Givotia rottleriformis Griff. ex Wight; Croton moluccanus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Givotia moluccana (L.) Sreem.
• Common name : White Catamaran Tree
• Vernacular name : Butti mara (Kannada); Thaalamaram, Kottaithanakku, Vellai-poothalai (Tamil); Kottathanukku, Kappakadalavanakku, Thala, Vandarali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Often on hills of dry deciduous belt from 400-900m, on slopes. Latex is blood-red, slow-flowing.
• Flower, Fruit : March-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kadapa district, Kurnool district
  • Telangana : Adilabad district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common deciduous forests
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Givotia moluccana. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.

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