• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Phyllanthus corcovadensis Müll.Arg.; Diasperus tenellus (Roxb.) Kuntze; Phyllanthus minor Fawc. & Rendle
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus tenellus Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Melarnelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Waste places and plantations
• Comments / notes : Occasional in gardens and hill forests
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : Mascarene Islands
• World Distribution : Introduced into Tropics and sub tropics
• Literature : Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S., 2008. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 5; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara.
• 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 tenellus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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