• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Phyllanthus niruri auct. non L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. & Thonn.
• Common name : Carry-me-seed, Phyllanthus
• Vernacular name : Jangli amli (Hindi); Nela nalli (Kannada); Kizhanelli (Tamil); Bhoomi amala kee (Sanskrit); Nela Usiri (Telugu); Keezhanelli, Keezharnelli, Kiruthaanelli, Kizhukanelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forests and forest plantations, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Often on plains to 900m, in arable lands, fallow fields, clearings of land and along river beds. Fruits are used in the treatment of jaundice.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao; S.B. Manohar, S.R. Ramesh
• Collection Date : 26-11-2015; 19-01-1979
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-259; KFP 5913
• Collection Locality : Koundinya WLS, Chittoor district (AP); Hospet, Bellary district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• Native : America
• World Distribution : Tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
• 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 amarus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Line Drawings

Field Image(s)