- Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
(Spurge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Euphorbiaceae
- Synonym(s) : Stillingia agallocha (L.) Baill.; Commia cochinchinensis Lour.; Excoecaria affinis Endl.; Excoecaria agallocha var. genuina Müll.Arg.; Excoecaria agallocha var. ovalis (Endl.) Müll.Arg.; Excoecaria camettia Willd.; Excoecaria ovalis Endl.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Excoecaria agallocha L.
- Common name : Blinding Tree, Agallocha
- Vernacular name :
- Gangwa (Hindi)
- Thilla, Haro gida (Kannada)
- Guan, Gaugoa (Oria)
- Thilla (Telugu)
- Thallaii (Tamil)
- Komatti, Kammetti, Kannampotti (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Banks of backwaters and mangrove forests
- Comments / notes : A Sacred Tree. Occasional in evergreen forests and marshy places. Wood has high calorific value and hence used as fuel. Latex is poisonous, when fallen on eye will damage the vision and hence called 'Blinding Tree'.
- Flower, Fruit : February-June
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Kendrapara district, Jagatsinghpur district, Balasore district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Norfolk
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Norfolk Islands, Philippines, Samoa, Santa Cruz Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Islands
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
- Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla: 242
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 371
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Excoecaria agallocha. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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