Dudhia Phool / Matted Sandmat
Euphorbia serpens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Dudhia Phool
Identify Dudhia Phool by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Tiny creeping mat-forming weed.
- Confirm leaf margin: Entire (smooth edge).
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Euphorbia serpens
- Genus
- Euphorbia
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- Tropics
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Delhi, Manipur
- 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 Dudhia Phool itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The fruit is a lobed, spherical capsule.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Dudhia Phool itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- Dudhia phool, Swetkerui
About Dudhia Phool
Matted Sandmat (Euphorbia serpens) is a herb in the Euphorbiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Telangana and 11 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Dudhia Phool belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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