• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Emblica fischeri Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus indofischeri Bennet
• Vernacular name : Karanelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Hills of dry forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 26/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-363
• Collection Locality : Papavinasanam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Virudhunagar district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
• 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=Phyllanthus indofischeri. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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