• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum (Dalzell) Trimen; Glochidion hirsutum (Roxb.) Voigt
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum (Dalzell) Trimen
• Vernacular name : Pageri (Telugu); Nellikkapuli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : On the hill forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in hills of moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collection Nos : CJS12440
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Hongkong
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg 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=Glochidion tomentosum. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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