- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Actephila bantamensis Miq.; Actephila dispersa (Elmer) Merr.; Actephila dolichantha Croizat; Actephila excelsa var. brevifolia N.Balach., Mahesw. & Chakrab.; Actephila gigantifolia Koord.; Actephila gitingensis Elmer; Actephila javanica Miq.; Actephila magnifolia Elmer; Actephila major Müll.Arg.; Actephila minahassae Koord.; Actephila neilgherrensis Wight; Actephila thomsonii Müll.Arg.; Actephila zeylanica Müll.Arg.; Anomospermum excelsum Dalzell; Savia actephila Hassk.; Savia zeylanica Baill.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Actephila excelsa (Dalzell) Mull.Arg.
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
- Key identification features : Shrubs or small trees, 2-4 m high; Leaves elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, glabrous; Flowers in axillary clusters or short peduncled racemes; Capsules depressed, globose.
- Flower, Fruit : April-May
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tawang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : North and Middle Andaman,South Andaman
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, China, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Fl. Karnataka vol. 2
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- M. Heijkoop, P.C. van Welzen (2017). A revision of the genus Actephila (Phyllanthaceae) in the Malesian region. Blumea 62:7-25.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 239
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 360
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Actephila excelsa. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.
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