- 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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