- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Synonym(s) : Ramium niveum (L.) Kuntze; Urtica nivea L.; Boehmeria candicans Hassk.; Boehmeria compacta Blume; Boehmeria frutescens var. concolor (Makino) Nakai
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.
- Common name : China grass, Rhea plant
- Habit : Shrub
- Comments / notes : Cultivated and an escape. Stem yeilds good fibre
- Key identification features : Small shrubs; branches slender, tomentose; Leaves ovate or suborbicular, acuminate, dentate, subcoriaceous, densely appressed white pubescent beneath; Flowers in axillary spikes, greenish; Achenes oblong, hairy.
- Flower, Fruit : February-March
- Distribution :
- Odisha : Cuttack district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Bhutan, India, Hainan, Japan, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Cook Islands, Bhutan, India, Hainan, Japan, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- 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 nivea. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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