• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Jatropha wightiana Müll.Arg.; Jatropha peltata Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Jatropha villosa Wight
• Vernacular name : Thanakku (Tamil)
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, Dindigul district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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 villosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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