Jodpakli / Hairless Tritaxis
Dimorphocalyx glabellus
- Habit
- Tree
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Jodpakli
Identify Jodpakli by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Confirm leaf margin: Entire (smooth edge).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- Confirm it sits within the Euphorbiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Jodpakli.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Dimorphocalyx glabellus
- Genus
- Dimorphocalyx
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- Entire (smooth edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Jodpakli itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Jodpakli itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Marathi
- Jodpakli
About Jodpakli
Hairless Tritaxis (Dimorphocalyx glabellus) is a tree in the Euphorbiaceae family. It grows in evergreen forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Jodpakli belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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