- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Basionym : Urtica melastomoides Poir
- Synonym(s) : Pilea trinervia (Roxb.) Wight; Urtica trinervia Roxb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pilea melastomoides (Poir.) Wedd.
- Vernacular name :
- Dongorbhori (Telugu)
- Narali (Malayalam)
- Habit : Undershrub
- Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Shola, also in valleys near streams.
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m, in sholas, often by stream banks.
- Flower, Fruit : April-December
- Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao; Raja K. Swamy, Noel Sebastian
- Collection Date : 23-11-2018
- Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 1608; HJCB-1756
- Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Kethedevaragudi, Chamarajanagar district (KA); Devikulam, Idukki, Kerala
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Hassan district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Wayanad district
- Odisha : Koraput district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Theni district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India, Sri Lanka, Java
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Malay Islands
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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.
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamilnadu, India vol. 2
- Herbarium specimen from Devikulam, Idukki, Kerala (not scanned)
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pilea melastomoides. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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