• 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) : Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wasteland and roadsides
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist shady places
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bidar district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1996; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere.
• 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=Acalypha malabarica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)