• 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 rotundifolius Klein ex Willd.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open deciduous forests and sandy localities
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 28/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0244
• Collection Locality : Way to Alipiri from Tirumala, Tirumala forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Nellore district, Vishakapatnam district, West Godavari district
  • Telangana : Nalgonda district
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district, Mysuru district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tirunelveli district, Tiruvallur district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Arabia and Tropical Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of tamilnadu, India vol. 2.
• 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 rotundifolius. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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