• Family : URTICACEAE
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : URTICACEAE
• Basionym : Pouzolzia neilgherrensis Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Not found in The Plant List
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 710, KFP 2866, KFP 16375, KFP 9465
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district, Theni district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Pouzolzia wightii var. nilghirensis. Downloaded on 3 July 2025.

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