• 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) : Oreocnide integrifolia (Gaudich.) Miq.
• Common name : Risa
• Vernacular name : Brahma Kamoda (Oria)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : In deep ravines and glens in the hills of Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 1200m, in shade.
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collection Nos : KFP 8091, KFP 11531, KFP 12176
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Chikkamagaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Wayanad district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district (Kalhandi district), Bhalupodar Valley (Koraput district)
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• World Distribution : India, Tropical America, Myanmar, Indo-China, South China, Himalayas
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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=Villebrunea integrifolia. Downloaded on 1 July 2025.

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