- Family : CELASTRACEAE
(Staff-Tree Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Celastraceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Euonymus indicus B.Heyne ex Wall.
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Tropical evergreen forests from Amboli (Maharashtra) to Thiruvananthapuram; elevation 160-1100m.
- Key identification features : Small evergreen trees. Leaves elliptic to elliptic lanceolate, subcoriaceous, base acute, margin entire or obscurely crenate, acute at apex. Inflorescence axillary dichasioid cymes, 1-3 flowered, peduncles and pedicels stout. Flowers reddish, calyx 4-5 lobed, 1.3 cm in diameter, petals fimbriate. Capsule valves deeply obcordate
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Sindhudurg district
- Tamil Nadu : Vellore district, Salem district, Namakkal district, Tiruchirapalli district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India
- Endemism : South India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Parthsarathy, N & Pragasan , A L 2009. Check List 5(3):542-569
- Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Saldanha, C. J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Euonymus indicus. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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