Drypetes venusta (Wight) Pax & Hoffman

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Putranjivaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Astylis venusta Wight; Hemicyclia venusta (Wight) Thwaites; Drypetes elata (Bedd.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Drypetes venusta (Wight) Pax & K.Hoffm.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Tidhara (Hindi)
    • Chandra galli, Mundu galli (Kannada)
    • Sadhurakalli (Tamil)
    • Vajrakantakah, Tridhara (Sanskrit)
    • Choota, Enikomban, Konamaram, Palakani, Thalakani, Thalakanimaram, Velleipuli (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Common in low and mid- elevation; elevation 200-1200m
  • Key identification features : Bole fluted; Leaves dark green, main nerves 10-15 pairs.
  • Flower, Fruit : January-May
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Pune district, Kolhapur district, Satara district
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
  • Native : India
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • Endemism : India
  • World Distribution : India
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2
    • Udayan, Ravikumar and Udaiyan 2004. New Plant records from the state of Karnataka. J. Ind. For. May, 2004
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
    • Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 370
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Drypetes venusta. Downloaded on 6 December 2024.

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