Croton tiglium L.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Tiglium officinale Klotzsch; Croton officinalis (Klotzsch) Alston; Kurkas tiglium (L.) Raf.; Oxydectes tiglium (L.) Kuntze
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Croton tiglium L.
  • Common name : Purging croton, Croton oil plant
  • Vernacular name :
    • Kadalavanakku, Neervalakuru, Neervallam, Neervaram (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Cultivated as medicinal plant
  • Comments / notes : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Key identification features : Shrubs or small trees, 25m high; younger parts stellate hairy; Leaves ovate or elliptic-oblong, sharply dentate or serrate; Flowers in racemes; male flowers with woolly petals and female flowers apetalous; Fruiits ovoid, whitish or greenish brown.
  • Flower, Fruit : May- November
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 369
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Croton tiglium. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.

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