• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Basionym : Urtica pentandra Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Gonostegia pentandra (Roxb.) Miq.
• Vernacular name : Piparisari (Hindi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along river banks
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Mandya district, Raichur district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Himalayas, India, China, Afghanistan, Java
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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=Pouzolzia pentandra. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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