Laportea interrupta
(L.) Chew
Family: Urticaceae
Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Rosales > Urticaceae > Laportea > L. interrupta
Common name [English]: Woodnettle
Vernacular name [Malayalam]: ആനക്കൊടിത്തൂവ
Nativity: Tropical & S. Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Mozambique, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Queensland
Habitat: Degraded deciduous forests, also in the plains, wet and shady places.
Description: Erect monoecious annual herbs with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 4-10 x 3-5 cm, broadly ovate, base rounded or subcordate, margin coarsely serrate, apex acuminate, sparsely hairy, membranous, 3-nerved from base; petiole to 8 cm long. Flowers in short, cymose clusters aggregated in slender lax, axillary spikes to 13 cm long. Male flowers: tepals 4, c. 1 mm long, ovate, concave; stamens 4, filaments unequal; pistillode linear, clavate. Female flowers: tepals 4, unequal, basally connate into a cup; ovary obliquely attached, ovoid, style lateral, filiform. Achenes c. 2 mm across, ovoid, compressed.
Flowering and Fruiting : August-September
Uses: Folk medicine
Cultivation: Wild
References
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
https://indiabiodiversity.org