- 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 14 November 2024.
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