Euphorbia antiquorum L.

 
  • Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
    (Spurge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Tithymalus antiquorus (L.) Moench; Euphorbia antiquorum var. polygona Wight; Euphorbia arborescens Roxb.; Euphorbia mayuranathanii Croizat
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Euphorbia antiquorum L.
  • Common name : Triangular spurge
  • Vernacular name :
    • Tidhara (Hindi)
    • Chandra galli, Mundu galli (Kannada)
    • Sadhurakalli (Tamil)
    • Vajrakantakah, Tridhara (Sanskrit)
    • Dokanasiju (Oria)
    • Bommajamudu, Pedda jemudu (Telugu)
    • Chathurakalli, Katakkalli, Palkalli (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Habitat : Scrub jungles, foothills of deciduous forests
  • Comments / notes : Often on plains to 800m in scrub jungles and dry deciduous forests.
  • Flower, Fruit : December-April
  • Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh, Navendu Page, K. Sankara Rao
  • Collection Date : 23/03/2016
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-E-0362
  • Collection Locality : Yercaud hills, Salem district (TN)
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
    • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Palakkad district
    • Odisha : Khurda district
    • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, India, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
    • Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
    • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • 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
    • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district
    • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of District Gulbarga
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
    • 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=Euphorbia antiquorum. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.

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