- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ostodes paniculata Blume
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Key identification features : Evergreen trees up to 15 m tall; Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate; margin serrated; Flowers in axillary inflorescences, unisexual, dioecious; sepals 5, connate, petals 5, free, white; stamens free; style 3, stigma bifid; Fruits rounded, 3 lobed, hairy, longitudinally grooved; green when young, brown when mature, 3 seeded; seeds ellipsoidal, brown, with yellowish spots.
- Flower, Fruit : March- May
- Distribution :
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Manipur
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Literature :
- Navendu Page., Aparajita Datta., Bibidishananda Basu (2022). Trees of Arunachal Pradesh-a field guide, Pg: 304-305
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 379
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ostodes paniculata. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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