✿Euphorbiaceae · Drypetes
Malampayin / Oblong-Leaf Boxwood
Drypetes oblongifolia
Tree
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Drypetes oblongifolia
- Genus
- Drypetes
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- Indo-Malesia
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Karnataka
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable (VU)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- Toothed (serrate/dentate edge)recorded
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Malampayin itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Malampayin itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- Malampayin, മലംപൈൻ
About Malampayin
Oblong-Leaf Boxwood (Drypetes oblongifolia) is a tree in the Euphorbiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It grows in evergreen forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Malampayin belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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