• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus debilis Klein ex Willd.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On hills to 1200m, in fallow lands and river beds.
• Flower, Fruit : May-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, New Guinea, Pacific Islands, The West Indies
• 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
• 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 debilis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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