- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Synonym(s) : Celtis elongata Wall.; Oreocnide acuminata Kurz; Oreocnide integrifolia subsp. subglabra C.J.Chen; Urtica appendiculata Wall.; Urtica urophylla Wall. ex Blume; Villebrunea appendiculata Wedd.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Oreocnide integrifolia (Gaudich.) Miq.
- Common name : Risa
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : In deep ravines and glens in the hills of Tropical 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)
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 418
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Villebrunea integrifolia. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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