✿Thymelaeaceae · Gnidia
Rameta / Fish Poison Bush
Gnidia glauca
Shrub
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- January-May
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Gnidia glauca
- Genus
- Gnidia
- Family
- Thymelaeaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Evergreen, dry deciduous and shola forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka and Africa
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Marathi
- रामेठा Rameta
- Tamil
- Nacchinar
- Malayalam
- Nanju
- Kannada
- ಮುಕುತೆ Mukuthe, ರಾಮಿ Rami, ಮುಕುಡಕ Mukudaka, ಏಣುಜಾರಿಗೆ Enujaarige, ಏನುಜಾರಿಗ Enujaarige
About Rameta
Fish Poison Bush (Gnidia glauca) is a shrub in the Thymelaeaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and 2 other states. It grows in evergreen, dry deciduous and shola forests. Flowering and fruiting run from January to May.
Botanical family
Thymelaeaceae
Daphne/Agarwood family
Rameta belongs to the Thymelaeaceae family.
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