Pouzolzia sanguinea (Blume) Merr.

 
  • Family : URTICACEAE
    (Nettle Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
  • Subfamily : Urticaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Boehmeria sanguinea (Blume) Hassk.; Urtica sanguinea Blume
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pouzolzia sanguinea (Blume) Merr.
  • Common name : Red-Stem Pouzolz's Bush
  • Vernacular name :
    • Osik (Adi)
    • Khupnal (Mizo)
    • Ari-arong (Tangkhul)
  • Habit : Shrub
  • Habitat : Warm broad-leaved forests, amongst scrub in dry valleys, edges of woods, roadsides; 300 - 2300 m. altitude
  • Key identification features : Erect herbs or undershrubs; bark brownish; Leaf blade lanceolate to ovate, 3-19 × 1.5-6 cm, margin with 8-19 teeth on each side; apex acuminate; Flowers in axillary clusters, greenish white; Achenes ovoid.
  • Flower, Fruit : June-August
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, China, Bhutan, India, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Literature :
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 219
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 1. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 128
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 422
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pouzolzia sanguinea. Downloaded on 6 October 2024.

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.