Sauropus quadrangularis
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Sauropus quadrangularis
Identify Sauropus quadrangularis by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub 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.
- In India, compare location records such as West Bengal.
- Confirm it sits within the Euphorbiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Sauropus quadrangularis.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Sauropus quadrangularis
- Genus
- Sauropus
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Moist deciduous, evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- India, China, Indo-China
- Found in India
- West Bengal
- 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 Sauropus quadrangularis 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 Sauropus quadrangularis itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Malayalam
- പുനർമുരിങ്ങ
About Sauropus quadrangularis
Sauropus quadrangularis belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, where it grows as a shrub. In India it has been recorded in West Bengal. It grows in moist deciduous, evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests, also in the plains. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Sauropus quadrangularis belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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