- Family : URTICACEAE
(Nettle Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
- Synonym(s) : Elatostema gagnepainianum H.Schroet.; Elatostema wightianum Wedd.; Pellionia procridioides Gagnep.; Procris lagunensis C.B.Rob.; Procris philippinensis C.B.Rob.; Procris rhizantha Gagnep.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Procris crenata C.B.Rob.
- Vernacular name :
- Parampu, Tambu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Shola, Tropical evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m, in sholas. Sometimes epiphytic
- Key identification features : Perennial herbs, up to 1 m high; Leaves obliquely lanceolate, acuminate, distantly crenate; Flowers greenish in small, fleshy, clustered cymes; Achenes ovoid, compressed, striate.
- Flower, Fruit : May- February
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Bhutan, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Bhutan, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). 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.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 423
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Procris crenata. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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