• Family : EUPHORBIACEAE
  (Spurge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : AMLA FAMILY (आँवला फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PHYLLANTHACEAE
• Basionym : Chorisandra pinnata Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllanthus pinnatus (Wight) G.L.Webster
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Moist deciduous to Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills
• Flower, Fruit : June-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Krishna district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Dindigul district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Flora of Andhra Pradesh, Pullaiah 1997. vol. 2.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
• 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 pinnatus. Downloaded on 27 April 2024.

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