• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Pilea radicans Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pilea wightii Wedd.
• Vernacular name : Valiyanarali (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist shaded places on tree trunks and rocks in forests of Western Ghats
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collection Nos : KFP 3145, KFP 5557, KFP 11941, KFP 13966
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2.
• 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=Pilea wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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