• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Basionym : Pouzolzia auriculata var. cymosa (Wight) Hook.f.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1200m, in moist places.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chamarajanagar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district
• Endemism : Southern Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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=Pouzolzia cymosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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