- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Synonym(s) : Procris peduncularis Royle
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lecanthus peduncularis (Royle) Wedd.
- Common name : Stalked Dischead
- Vernacular name :
- Gakaleti, Ganthe golia, Goliko (Nepali)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola
- Comments / notes : Rare on mossy rocks in moist and shaded places
- Flower, Fruit : July-December
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kozhikode district
- Maharashtra : Satara district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Bargarh district, Koraput district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Japan, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Niue, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bhutan, Cameroon, China, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Japan, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Niue, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 367
- Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 2. Published BSI: 651
- Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 261
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 417
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lecanthus peduncularis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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