- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : PUTRANJIVACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Astylis venusta Wight; Hemicyclia venusta (Wight) Thwaites; Drypetes elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Drypetes venusta (Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm.
- Vernacular name : Tidhara (Hindi); Chandra galli, Mundu galli (Kannada); Sadhurakalli (Tamil); Vajrakantakah, Tridhara (Sanskrit); Choota, Enikomban, Konamaram, Palakani, Thalakani, Thalakanimaram, Velleipuli (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Common in low and mid- elevation; elevation 200-1200m
- Key identification features : Bole fluted; Leaves dark green, main nerves 10-15 pairs.
- Flower, Fruit : January-May
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Pune district, Kolhapur district, Satara district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Western Peninsular India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Udayan, Ravikumar and Udaiyan 2004. New Plant records from the state of Karnataka. J. Ind. For. May, 2004; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
- 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 venusta. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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