• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Phyllanthus kozhikodianus Sivar. & Manilal; Phyllanthus macraei var. hispidus Gamble
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus rheedei Wight
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and shola forests, also in forest plantations and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills in dry forests
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Chalama forest-Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Krishna district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Coimbatore district, Tirunelveli district, Kanyakumari district, Namakkal district, Salem district, Theni district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Virudhunagar district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
• 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 rheedei. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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