• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Macraea gardneriana Wight
• Synonym(s) : Phyllanthus virgatus var. gardnerianus (Wight) Govaerts & Radcl.-Sm.; Phyllanthus simplex var. gardnerianus (Wight) Müll.Arg.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus virgatus var. gardnerianus (Wight) Govaerts & Radcl.-Sm.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous and semi-Evergreen forests, also in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common in crevices of rocks in Northern Eastern Ghats
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Coimbatore district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Kanyakumari district, Salem district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Sankar,R.V., R. Kottaimuthu & K. Ravikumar (2009). Additions to the flora of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 1(7): 379-381; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phyllanthus gardnerianus. Downloaded on 5 May 2024.

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