Antidesma menasu (Tul.) Mull.Arg.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Phyllanthaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Antidesma acuminatum Wight; Antidesma montanum Blume; Antidesma moritzii (Tul.) Müll.Arg.; Antidesma refractum Müll.Arg.; Antidesma simile Müll.Arg.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Antidesma montanum Blume
  • Vernacular name :
    • Paei Eechai (Tamil)
    • Khat jamrala (Oria)
    • Putharaval, Thathalamaram (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Along streams in Tropical dry evergreen forests, Tropical evergreen forests, Shola
  • Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1200m, in sholas and sometimes in borders of shola
  • Key identification features : Shrubs or small trees, 6-8 m high; branchlets tomentose; Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, oblong or oblong-Ianceolate, glabrous; Flowers in terminal or axillary, paniculate racemes, greenish white; Fruits ellipsoid, red, black when ripe.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-November
  • Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Imran Baig, A.N. Sringeswara; Arun Singh& Raja K. Swamy
  • Collection Date : 08-04-2014, 31-10-2015
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-E-31; HJCB-0382
  • Collection Locality : Yelagiri Hills, Vellur district (TN); Swamy Malai Hills, Vellore district (TN)
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Visakhapatnam district, East Godavari district
    • Goa : South Goa district
    • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : All district of Kerala
    • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Sundargarh district
    • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Vellore district, Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary (Theni district), Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Dindigul district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Subansiri
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, V
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work)
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
    • Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
    • Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 361
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  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Antidesma menasu. Downloaded on 21 February 2026.

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