• Family : CELASTRACEAE
  (Staff-Tree Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MALKANGANI FAMILY (मालकांगनी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CELASTRACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Euonymus crenulatus Wall. ex Wight & Arn.
• Vernacular name : Dhanthapatri, Malamkuratha (Malayalam)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kollam district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Dindigul district, Kanyakumari district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district, Bodamalai Hills, Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills (Salem district), Chitteri Hills (Vellore district), Kolli hills (Namakkal district), Pachaimalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district)
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gamble, 1918. Fl. Pres. Madra. pp.203.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Euonymus crenulatus. Downloaded on 9 May 2024.

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