Actephila excelsa (Dalzell) Mull.Arg.

 
  • 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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