• 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 20 May 2024.

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