- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Synonym(s) : Boehmeria caudata Poir.; Boehmeria elliptica Wedd.; Boehmeria elongata Steud.; Boehmeria interrupta Guill.; Boehmeria macrophylla Hornem.; Boehmeria massuriensis Blume; Boehmeria mauritiana Wedd.; Boehmeria mauritiana var. molliuscula Blume; Boehmeria rugosissima Wedd.; Boehmeria urantha Blume; Boehmeria virgata var. molliuscula (Blume) Friis & Wilmot-Dear; Procris macrophylla Reinw. ex Blume; Ramium macrophyllum Kuntze; Urtica angustifolia Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Urtica blanda Wall. ex Wedd.; Urtica cinerascens Wall.; Urtica elongata J.F.Gmel.; Urtica grandifolia Thunb. ex Wedd.; Urtica macrostachya Wall. ex D.Don; Urtica mollis Reinw. ex Blume; Urtica platyphylla Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Urtica pulcherrima Wall.; Urtica rugosa Reinw. ex Blume; Urtica tomentosa Juss. ex Wedd.; Urtica uragera Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Boehmeria virgata subsp. macrophylla (Hornem.)
- Habit : Shrub
- Habitat : Along the sides of water courses in Tropical evergreen forests
- Key identification features : Shrubs with spreading branches, bark blackish; Flowers in long spikes, small; Achenes brownish.
- Flower, Fruit : November-December
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Kannur district, Pathanamthitta district
- Odisha : Odisha
- Uttarakhand : Nainital district
- West Bengal : West Bengal
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit
- Native : Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Ugan
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Comoros, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Réunion, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Literature :
- 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: 408
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Boehmeria macrophylla. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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