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Euphorbia nivulia Buch.-Ham
Synonym
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Euphorbia helicothele
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Family
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Euphorbiaceae
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Local name
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English - Indian Spurge Tree
Malayalam – Kallippala
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-April
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Distribution
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India and Myanmar
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Distribution
in kerala
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Palakkad, Alappuzha, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Kozhikkode,
Thrissur, Wayanad, Idukki, Kannur, Malappuram
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Habitat
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Rocky hills in moist and dry deciduous
forests
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Uses
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Used in the Ayurvedic system of medicine for bronchitis,
asthma, leprosy, jaundice and tumors, and the juice is used as a purga- tive
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Key Botanical Characters:
Large erect, fleshy deciduous, shrubs;
branches terete; spines straight,
paired on flat corky base. Leaves alternate, sessile, 7-18 x 3-6.5 cm,
oblanceolate-oblong or obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse, fleshy.Cyathia
usually paired, in subterminal cymes. Involucre broadly cupular, yellow;
lobes fimbriate; glands 5, transversely oblong, fleshy, appendage absent.Male
flowers with sterile florets, bracteolate.Female florets laterally pendulous.
Style stout, branched above; stigmatic lobes flattened and slightly expanded.
Capsule c. 5 mm across, 3-lobed.Seeds 4-angular, smooth.
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