• 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 narayanswamii Gamble
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Among rocks in grasslands in deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on rocks up to 1400m.
• Key identification features : Leaves elliptic, obtuse, apiculate with 4-5 prominent nerves. Male flowers sub-sessile, female flowers pedicellate. Capsule glandular.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 26/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0201
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
• Literature : Sankar,R.V., R. Kottaimuthu & K. Ravikumar (2009). Additions to the flora of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 379-381; Pullaiah & Ali Moulali, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 narayanswamii. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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