පෙනෙල/Soap Fruit Tree (Sapindus emarginatus [Syn: Sapindus emarginata])

An indigenous medium-sized to large tree common in dry zone forests up to 500 m elevations. Flowering from March to April and fruiting from May to July.

Phyllanthus sp.

 An endemic or indigenous subshrub occurs above 900 m elevations in the Knuckles range. Rather similar to the Phyllanthus baillonianus but with cream-white flowers. Probably an addition to the flora of Sri Lanka, first recorded in Vlas de J., 2019 with only male flowers (Female flowers are also shown here).

Vlas de J., 2019 - Illustrated field guide to the flowers of Sri Lanka Volume 3 

Phyllanthus rheedei

An indigenous perennial herb rare in montane forests from 1000 to 2000 m or higher. 

හුණුකිරිල්ල (Glochidion candolleanum)

An indigenous shrub or small tree of montane forests above 1000 m elevation.

* Glochidion pachycarpum Alston  and Glochidion pycnocarpum (Muell.Arg.) Beddome  are synonyms. 

Tawny-bellied Babbler/White-throated Babbler/Rufous Bellied Babbler/කුස කහ ලඳු-දෙමළිච්චා/ගෙල සුදු දෙමළිච්චා (Dumetia hyperythra)

Tawny-bellied Babbler is a local and rather uncommon breeding resident inhabiting forests, scrublands, grasslands, adjoining well wooded home gardens and tea plantations from lowlands to about 1500 m elevations in the mid hills or even higher in some areas. Much common in the dry zone and avoids interior of the wet zone forests. It lives as small flocks, maintaining a large territory and skulking among bushes in grasslands/scrublands or undergrowth of the forest, moving one after other with squeaks of alarms and chattering or churring notes. It feeds mainly on insects and berries. The breeding season lasts from March to May and probably again from August to September. The nest is a ball of dry grasses, twigs and fibers with an entrance hole on the side, sets usually near ground in a bush, tussock of a Mana grass or the like, where it lays 3 or 4 eggs. 

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Knuckles Corrugated Water Frog/දුම්බර වක රැලි දිය මැඩියා (Lankanectes pera)

An endemic and critically endangered frog restricted to the clear, shallow and slow flowing streams with sand and rock-strewn substrates in closed canopy sub montane and montane forests of the Knuckles range (Above 1100 m elevations in Dothalugala, Bambarella, Knuckles Peaks and Riveston areas) . Males can be found under rocks or rock-crevices in flowing water. Tadpoles of this frog occurs in deeper regions of the stream where decaying vegetation gathers. Nocturnal.