About Nepal Persicaria
Persicaria nepalensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to eastern Africa, including Madagascar, and parts of Asia. It has been introduced elsewhere: parts of Europe (including Great Britain), North America (including British Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania) and northern South America. The species was first described as Polygonum nepalense by Carl Meissner in 1826, and transferred to Persicaria by Hugo Gross in 1913. (The same transfer was made later, in 1934, by Kingo Miyabe; as of 3 May 2019, Plants of the World Online used this transfer for the authorship of the combination.)
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Polygonum nepalense
- Genus
- Polygonum
- Family
- POLYGONACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Evergreen and shola forests
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa, Afghanistan, Himalayas, India, China, Japan, Malesia
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-February
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Polygonaceae
Buckwheat/Knotweed family
Nepal Persicaria belongs to the Polygonaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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