Sapium insigne (Royle) Benth. & Hook.f.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Carumbium insigne (Royle) Kurz; Excoecaria insignis (Royle) Müll.Arg.; Sapium insigne var. genuinum Pax; Falconeria malabarica Wight; Falconeria wallichiana Royle; Gymnobothrys lucida Wall. ex Baill.; Sapium insigne var. malabaricum (Wight) Hook.f.
  • 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)
    • Sherod (Gujarati)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Deciduous forest
  • 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
  • Collector(s) Name : K.R.Keshava Murthy, B.R.Ramesh
  • Collection Date : 06/03/1979
  • Collection Nos : KFP 6128
  • Collection Locality : Kodachadri, Shivamogga district
  • 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)
    • Gujarat : DNorth Gujarat district
    • Uttarakhand : Dehradun
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • 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.
    • Shah G. L. (1978). Flora of Gujarat State Part 1. University Press Sardar Patel University: 634
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 382
  • 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 7 October 2024.

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