- Family : VERBENACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Lamiaceae
- Species : Vitex negundo
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vitex negundo L.
- Common name : Common Chaste, Five-leaved Chaste Tree
- Vernacular name : Nirgundi (San.); Samhalu, Nirgandhi (Hin.); Lakki gida (Kan.)
- Collection Nos : CJS 11704, CJS 16393
- Key identification features : A large shrub. Leaves are with 3-5 leaflets which are lanceolate, acute. Upper surface of the leaf is smooth and lower surface covered by silvery white soft hairs. Flowers are small in stalked bunches with bluish-purple 5-lobed petals. Fruits are globose black berries.
- Habit : Shrub
- Native : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Comments : Leaves are mosquito repellant.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
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