• 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) : Jatropha glandulifera Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Thotali gida (Kannada); Vellaikattukottai (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Plains, wastelands and scrub jungles
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02/01/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-272
• Collection Locality : Mabbuchintalapalle, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Raichur district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Jatropha glandulifera. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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