About Hawaii Woodnettle
Laportea interrupta is a short-lived annual that grows mainly in seasonally dry tropical regions.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Laportea interrupta
- Genus
- Laportea
- Family
- URTICACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Distribution
- Africa, Abyssinia, Sri lanka, India, Japan, China through Southeast Asia, Australia and Pacific Islands
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- बिछाता bichata, बिछुआ bichua, बिछुटी bichuti
- Bengali
- লাল-বিছুটি lal-bichuti, লাল-বিছুটি
- Tamil
- பெருங்காஞ்சொறி peru-n-kanchori
- Kannada
- ಪಂಚರಂಗಿ pancharangi
- Malayalam
- ആനക്കൊടിത്തൂവ aanakkodithoova, ചൊറിയണം choriyanam, കുപ്പത്തൂവ kuppathoova
- Marathi
- आग्या aagya
Botanical family
Urticaceae
Nettle family
Hawaii Woodnettle belongs to the Urticaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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