- 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) : Agrostistachys indica Dalzell
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
- Key identification features : Leaves strongly serrate, often spiny.
- Flower, Fruit : February-March
- Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha; C.J.Saldanha
- Collection Nos : CJS 12485 (male), CJS 15907 (female)
- Collection Locality : Road to Devarunde (Hassan); Bisle Ghat (Hassan)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
- Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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 indica. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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