- 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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