- 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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