• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Phyllanthus debilis Sensu Hook.f. non Klein ex Willd
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus airy-shawii Jean F.Brunel & J.P.Roux
• Vernacular name : Keezharnelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forests and forest plantations, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional in open deciduous forests above 900m.
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0055
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Naidu, M.T, O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah (2015). Vascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7683-7690.
• 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=Phyllanthus airy-shawii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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