• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pouzolzia pentandra var. wightii (Benn. & Br.) Friis & Wilmot-Dear
• Vernacular name : Parakozhuppa (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : On hills to 1100m by streams.
• Flower, Fruit : December-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Srikakulam district
  • Telangana : Mehboobnagar district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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; Yoganarasimhan et al., 1977 - Enumeration of the Flora of Chikmagalur; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 wightii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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