• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Basionym : Urtica sinuata Blume
• Synonym(s) : Laportea crenulata Gaud.; Urtica crenulata Roxb; Laportea crenulata (Roxb.) Gaud.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dendrocnide sinuata (Blume) Chew
• Common name : Mousa Nettle
• Vernacular name : Yenugu davadalu (Telugu); Anamayakki, Aananakki, Aanavannangi, Aanayaviratti, Anachoriyan, Kattanplavu, Kosa (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and semi-Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-December
• Collection Nos : Raghavan 68068, Raghavan 69544, KFP 5360
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : Indo-Malayan
• World Distribution : Indo-Malayan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Dendrocnide sinuata. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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