• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : EUPHORBIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Agrostistachys meeboldii Pax & K.Hoffm.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Agrostistachys borneensis Becc.
• Vernacular name : Vaeppaalaa maram (Tamil); Kozhivalan, Mulimpala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Shola forests up to 1400m as an undergrowth or along inner margins in clumps.
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Malay peninsula
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Malay Peninsula
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Agrostistachys borneensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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