Sapium baccatum Roxb.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Carumbium baccatum (Roxb.) Kurz; Excoecaria affinis Griff.; Excoecaria baccata (Roxb.) Müll.Arg.; Stillingia paniculata Miq.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Balakata baccata (Roxb.) Esser
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : In tropical evergreen forests
  • Key identification features : Trees, 10-35 m high with dense crown; Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, young ones orange coloured; petioles eglandular, reddish; Flowers in terminal racemes, red-purple or yellowish; Fruits globose, purplish.
  • Distribution :
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Subansiri, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • Literature :
    • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 240
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 381
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sapium baccatum. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.

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