- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Acalypha fallax Muell.-Arg.; Ricinocarpus lanceolatus (Willd.) Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Acalypha lanceolata Willd.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Scrub Forests
- Key identification features : Milky latex
- Flower, Fruit : April-November
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
- Collection Date : 05-11-2014, 10-10-2013
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-184; FAP 42016
- Collection Locality : Aluru kona, Anantapur district; Batrepalli, Anantapur district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kurnool district, Anantapur district, West Godavari district, Nellore district, East Godavari district, Kadapa district, Srikakulam district
- Telangana : Adilabad district, Nizamabad district
- Karnataka : Dharwad district, Uttara Kannada district, Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Puri district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Dharmapuri district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Lakshadweep : Kalpeni Islands, Kavaratti Islands, Minicoy Islands
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Java, Sumtra, Malaysia, Polynesia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District, Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha, 1996
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- C., Sudhakar Reddy & Roy, Parth. (2011). Plant Diversity of Lakshadweep Islands.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Acalypha lanceolata. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.
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