• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PUTRANJIVACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
• Common name : Indian Amulet Tree, Putranjiva, Officinal Drypetes
• Vernacular name : Jivputrak, Jiyapota, Putranjeeva (Hindi); Putranjivi (Kannada); Parupala, Sannimaram, Kattupacheeli (Tamil); Putrajivah, Putranjiva (Sanskrit); Poinpunda, Poichan, Poisundia (Oria); Putranjeevika, Kuduru, Kudra Juvi (Telugu); Ekkoli, Poothilanji, Ponkalam, Puthrajeevi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : Often on hills from 500m onwards. Sometimes planted in plains as an avenue tree for its dense foliage on the pendulous branchlets. The name Putranjiva refers to its fertility properties.
• Flower, Fruit : March-April; May onwards
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh R & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 11/09/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-0003
• Collection Locality : Javadu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Common
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Madurai district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, Indo-China, Java, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands, East New Guinea
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; 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; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Dec.
• 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=Drypetes roxburghii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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