- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Basionym : Urtica bulbifera Siebold & Zucc.
- Synonym(s) : Leportea terminalis Wight; Fleurya bulbifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Blume ex Miq.; Urticastrum bulbiferum (Siebold & Zucc.) Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Laportea bulbifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Wedd.
- Vernacular name :
- Chenthatti, Choriyanam, Thoova (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola
- Key identification features : Shrubs, up to 1 m high, branched from ground level; stems spiny, stinging hairy; Leaves broadly ovate-acuminate, serrate; Male flowers in axillary cymes; female ones in subterminal panicles; Achenes conspicuously deflexed, tubercled.
- Flower, Fruit : November-February
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : China, Bhutan, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Kuril Islands, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nepal, Primorye, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : China, Bhutan, India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Kuril Islands, Manchuria, Myanmar, Nepal, Primorye, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
- 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: 417
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Laportea bulbifera. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.
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