• Family : POLYGONACEAE
  (Buckwheat Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POLYGONACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H. Gross
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) Miyabe
• Common name : Nepal Persicaria
• Vernacular name : Cherumukkala (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen and shola forests
• Comments / notes : Often a weed of cultivation, along streams
• Flower, Fruit : September-February
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills, Yercaud Hills (Salem district)
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Afghanistan, Himalayas, India, China, Japan, Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; 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.
• 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=Polygonum nepalense. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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