| |
Girardinia diversifolia
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
URTICACEAE
|
| |
Citation: Girardinia diversifolia (Link) Friis, Kew Bull. 36: 145. 1981; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 383. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 359. 1985; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 262. 1988; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 438. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 762. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 453. 1990; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 419. 1996; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 74. 1998; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 651. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 384. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 292. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 302. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 470. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 6504 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 760. 2009.
Urtica diversifolia Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 2: 385. 1822.
Girardinia heterophylla Decne. in Jacq., Voy. 4: 151. t.153. 1844; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 551. 1888 incl. var. palmata.
Girardinia leschenaultiana Decne. in Jacq., Voy. 4: 152. 1844; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1372(960). 1928.
Girardinia zeylanica Decne. in Jacq., Voy. 4: 152. 1844; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1373(960). 1928; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 279. 1982.
Girardinia heterophylla Decne. var. zeylanica (Decne.) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 551. 1888.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
Aanachoriyanam, Aanachenthotti, Choriyanam, Chenthotti, Kuttithoova
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
Nilghiri nettle
|
| |
Description:
Subshrubs with white stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-7-lobed, 8-15 x 10-17 cm, base cordate, lobes margin inciso-serrate, densely strigose, 3-ribbed from base; stipules to 1.5 x 1 cm, broadly oblong, auricled, acute; petiole to 10 cm long, reddish. Male flowers in axillary, cylindrical branched or unbranched spikes, white; tepals 4, 2 mm long, ovate, cucullate; stamens 4; pistillode globose. Female flowers in subterminal heads; tepals connate into a ventricose tube, 2-4-lobed; ovary flattened, ovate, style filiform. Achenes ca 3 mm across, compressed.
|
| |
Habit:
Shrub
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
October-November
|
| |
District(s):
All Districts
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Evergreen, semi-evergreen, moist deciduous and shola forests, also in waste lands
|
| |
Distribution:
Tropical Asia
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Green, White
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Vellanimala, Alampetty, Olikkudy, Kalvarimala, Kothala, Chittaruvi, Pathenthode, Damsite, Moozhiar, Mannarappara, on way to Brahmagiri, Tolpetty, Sreekantapuram, Kanthaloor forests, Kaikatty forests-Pothundy, Thamarakulam, Nadugani ghats
|