Creeping Sebastiana
Sebastiania chamaelea
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Jharkhand
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Creeping Sebastiana
Identify Creeping Sebastiana 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.
- 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 Karnataka, Jharkhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Euphorbiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Creeping Sebastiana.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Sebastiania chamaelea
- Genus
- Sebastiania
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Weed in cultivated fields and in deciduous forests
- Habitat type
- Forest, Cultivated, Wasteland
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka to Australia, Pacific Islands, Malesia
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Jharkhand
- 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 Creeping Sebastiana 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 Creeping Sebastiana itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Creeping Sebastiana
Creeping Sebastiana (Sebastiania chamaelea) is a herb in the Euphorbiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka and Jharkhand. It grows in weed in cultivated fields and in deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Creeping Sebastiana belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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