• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Basionym : Croton repandus Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mallotus repandus (Willd.) Mull.Arg.
• Vernacular name : Donkar, Ghirguria (Oria); Kundaveltu (Telugu); Akush (Hindi); Thavatti (Malayalam)
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Scrub forests, near the sea coast
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Telangana : Warangal district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Angul district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Malay Islands, New Calidonia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Cecil J. Saldanha (1996). Flora of Karnatka State 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=Mallotus repandus. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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