Securinega virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Baill.

Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : Phyllanthaceae
Basionym : Phyllanthus virosus Roxb. ex Willd.
Synonym(s) : Flueggea microcarpa Blume; Acidoton virosus (Roxb. ex Willd.) Kuntze; Phyllanthus virosus Roxb. ex Willd.
Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle
Vernacular name :
- Gadahallae (Kannada)
- Karumpula, Aduthinnichedi (Tamil)
- Pandharphalli (Marathi)
- Perimklavu, Vellapoolam (Malayalam)
Habit : Shrub
Habitat : Dry and Tropical moist deciduous forests and wastelands
Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1200m on bare slopes and exposed rocks; a high altitude replacement of S. Leucopyrus.
Flower, Fruit : March-December
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Chittoor district
- Telangana : Khammam district, Adilabad district
- Karnataka : Kolar district, Hassan district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district
- Odisha : Puri district, Sambalpur district, Kalhandi district, Mayurbhanj district, Rayagada district, Koraput district, Cuttack district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
Native : Andaman Islands, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia,
Exotic/Native : Native
World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Islands, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
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
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 383
Read more :
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Securinega virosa. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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The Center for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science houses a herbarium of a fairly large number of specimens of native and naturalized plants collected by many taxonomists and researchers. This herbarium is recognized internationally by the acronym ‘JCB’. The collection consists of more than 20,000 specimens, from vascular plants to lichens. The duplicates of the authenticated specimens have been deposited with herbaria of the Royal Botanic Gardens at KEW, UK and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA. It is richest with plants from the state of Karnataka and the Western Ghats. Recent efforts have added further collection from the states of Maharastra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. This herbarium probably is the only holding of plant specimens collected from all over Peninsular States other than the Central National Herbarium (CAL).
One important research activity in the herbarium has been to generate and organize vast amounts of information on the floral wealth of different regions of the country and then package it to suit the requirements of an online information system.
Further to launching the Digital flora of Karnataka, Digital flora of Eastern Ghats and the Flora of Peninsular India databases, the herbarium team has embarked on a broad regional study towards developing an online information system for the plant wealth in the country.

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