• Family : MALVACEAE
  (HIBISCUS OR MALLOW FAMILY)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Malvaceae
• Species : Urena lobata
• Subspecies : sinuata
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Urena sinuata L.
• Common name : Common Purple Mallow
• Vernacular name : Kunguya, Lobloli, Lotlotti, Kunjuya (Hin.); Pedda benda, Nela benda, Piliya mankena (Tel.)
• Key identification features : A small perennial branched shrub with alternate, lobed leaves, ovate-orbicular. Flowers are 1-5 cm across, solitary in the leaf axils and subtended by five bracts, pink in colour. Fruit is a capsule, about 1 cm and covered with blunt spines. Epicalyx is spreading or reflexed in fruit.
• Habit : Undershrub
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Comments : Occasional weed of roadsides.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Throughout Eastern Ghats
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipal, Orissa; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Urena lobata subsp. sinuata. Downloaded on 4 July 2024.

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