Mallotus stenanthus Muell.-Arg.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
  • Synonym(s) : Mallotus resinosus var. stenanthus (Müll.Arg.) Susila & N.P.Balakr.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mallotus resinosus (Blanco) Merr.
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Banks of streams
  • Comments / notes : Usually in sholas at elevations 670-870 m.
  • Key identification features : Leaves rhomboid, drying green. Capsule with conical spines on ripening.
  • Flower, Fruit : September-August (WG)
  • Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh & Raja K. Swamy
  • Collection Date : 31/10/2015
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-0380; CS 9
  • Collection Locality : Swamy Malai Hills, Vellure district (TN)
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
    • Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Vellore district, Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Peninsular India
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
  • Literature : Saldanha, C. J.(1996). Flora of Karnataka vol.2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co,New Delhi; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Aug; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
  • 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 stenanthus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.