Trewia polycarpa Benth.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Mallotus polycarpus (Benth.) Kulju & Welzen
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Found growing along streams
  • Key identification features : Leaves drying black. Fruit densely grey, tomentose.
  • Flower, Fruit : November-March
  • Collection Nos : RRRao 685
  • Collection Locality : Talakad, Mysore districts
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Tamil Nadu : Thanjavur district
  • Native : India
  • Endemism : Southwest India
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District, Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2).pp.1483
  • 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=Trewia polycarpa. Downloaded on 5 April 2025.

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.