- Family : MALVACEAE
(Mallow Or Hibiscus Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GURHAL FAMILY (गुड़हल फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Decaschistia crotonifolia Wight & Arn.
- Vernacular name : Kolle (Kannada); Selangamaram (Tamil)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional clums on bare slopes, especially among rocks in deciduous forests, up to 1500m
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R, Karuppusamy & Tilakar M; S.B. Manohar & K.P. Sreenath; S.R. Ramesh & S.B. Manohar
- Collection Date : 17-06-2014; 07-04-1979; 15-05-1979
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-24; KFP 6644; KFP 7573
- Collection Locality : Sirumalai Hills, Dindiga ditrict (TN); M.M. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA); B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA); Papavinasanam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district, Nellore district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Chamarajanagar district
- Kerala : Wayanad district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district, Salem district, Dharmapuri district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- 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=Decaschistia crotonifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.
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