Tragia sanjappae Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr in Rheedea 16: 25, f. 4. 2006; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorb. India 184. 2007. Tragia involucrata L. var. angustifolia Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 465. 1888; Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1332. 1925 (repr. ed. 932. 1957); D. Naras. et al. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 13: 57, f. 2. 1989.

Climbing herbs, ca 75 cm high; stem and branches hispid when young, glabrous in age. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 4 – 20 x 0.4 – 2.5 cm, narrowly cuneate to cuneate-attenuate at base and obscurely contracted cordate at extreme base, irregularly and distantly serrulate to entire along margins, attenuate to attenuate-caudate at apex, chartaceous, scattered hispid or hirsute above and on nerves beneath, penninerved or very weakly trinerved at base with the basal pair of lateral nerves extending 10 – 30 % way along the lamina; upper lateral nerves 7 – 15 per side, predominantly brochidodromous; petioles 3 – 35 x 0.7 – 1.5 mm. Racemes up to 2 cm long; peduncle up to 1 cm long. Male flowers: pedicels up to 2 mm long; sepals suborbicular, ca 1 x 0.7 mm; stamens 3; filaments ca 0.5 mm long, connate at base; anthers ca 0.4 mm long. Female flowers: subsessile or with up to 1 mm long pedicels; sepals linear, ca 3 x 1 mm, pinnatifid; ovary ca 1.5 mm across, hispid; style 3 – 4 mm long, trifid and recurved at apex. Fruits subsessile, depressed, deeply 3-lobed, 3 – 4 x 8 – 10 mm, scattered hispid; fruiting sepals 4 – 6 x 1 – 3 mm (including lobes); main body linear, hispid outside, glabrous inside; lobes 5 – 8 per side, linear or subulate, 0.3 – 2 mm long, hispid or hirsute.

Fl. & Fr. Sept. – Jan.

Distrib. India: Rare in semievergreen forests between 65 – 1300 m altitudes. Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Endemic.