Baliospermum montanum (Willd.) Müll.Arg.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Basionym : Jatropha montana Willd.
  • Synonym(s) : Croton solanifolius Geiseler; Baliospermum axillare Blume; Baliospermum raziana Keshaw, Murthy & Yogan.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Baliospermum solanifolium (Burm.) Suresh
  • Vernacular name :
    • Danti (Hindi)
    • Kaduharalu (Kannada)
    • Danti (Sanskrit)
    • Jamalgota (Marathi)
    • Dumbojoda, Konaka (Oria)
    • Nelajidi (Telugu)
    • Cheriyadanthi, Danthi, Dantika, Kadalavannakku, Nagadanthi (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Undershrub or shrub
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, field borders; also shaded places
  • Comments / notes : Occasional
  • Key identification features : Undershrubs, up to 2 m high; sparingly branched; Leaves lanceolate, ovate or ovate-oblong, biglandular at base, sinuate-dentate; Flowers in axillary racemes or panicles, creamy white with pinkish tinge; Fruits obovoid.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-April
  • Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, Ravichandran V.; K.P.Sreenath, S.R.Ramesh
  • Collection Date : 2-3-2017, 09-02-1980
  • Collection Nos : HJCB 992, KFP 10830
  • Collection Locality : Similipal, Odisha; Dandeli-Gand road, Uttara Kannada district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Krishna district
    • Telangana : Khammam district, Nizamabad district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Akola district
    • Odisha : Cuttack district, Koraput district, Dhenkanal district, Ganjam district, Bargarh district, Angul district, Bolangir district, Khurda district
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • 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 et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
    • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 365
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Baliospermum montanum. Downloaded on 2 December 2024.

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