- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
- Basionym : Falconeria insignis Royle
- Synonym(s) : Falconeria malabarica Wight
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Falconeria insignis Royle
- Common name : Tiger's Milk Spruce
- Vernacular name :
- Lendwa (Hindi)
- Kannu pade (Kannada)
- Sakkarakkalli (Tamil)
- Lendwa, Khinna, Khirum, Khindra, Kendwa (Oria)
- Kaduru, Barhasula (Telugu)
- Kalmaram, Kannampotti (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional along rocky hills up to 600m on dry deciduous belt, often among rocks. Latex is toxic and causes instant blindness when fallen in eyes.
- Key identification features : Produces a highly toxic milky latex.
- Flower, Fruit : December-May
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Nellore district, Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district)
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
- Uttarakhand : Dehradun
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indo-China, Malay Peninsula
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- 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.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sapium insigne. Downloaded on 2 July 2024.
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