Tharoi Pijup / White Porterweed
Stachytarpheta cayennensis
- Habit
- Shrub
- Found in India
- Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Assam & more
- Flowering
- December-March
How to identify Tharoi Pijup
Identify Tharoi Pijup by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed.
- Confirm leaf surface: Hirsute.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Spike.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: December-March.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Stachytarpheta cayennensis
- Genus
- Stachytarpheta
- Family
- Verbenaceae
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Waste places
- Habitat type
- Wasteland
- Native to
- Tropical America
- Distribution
- Introduced to tropics and subtropics
- Found in India
- Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-March
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- ToothedrecordedA saw-like or jagged edge (serrate or dentate).“The blades are up to 8 to 10 centimeters long, oval in shape with sharply toothed edges, and rough-textured or wrinkly on the upper surfaces.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- HirsuterecordedCovered in coarse, stiff, bristly hairs.“The blades are up to 8 to 10 centimeters long, oval in shape with sharply toothed edges, and rough-textured or wrinkly on the upper surfaces.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tharoi Pijup itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
- Flower arrangement
- SpikerecordedFlowers arranged directly on a central stem without individual stalks.“The inflorescence is a very narrow spike up to 40 to 45 centimeters long covered in pointed bracts.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Tharoi Pijup itself; the rest are typical of the Verbenaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tangkhul
- Tharoi pijup
About Tharoi Pijup
White Porterweed (Stachytarpheta cayennensis) is a shrub in the Verbenaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and 4 other states. It grows in waste places. Flowering and fruiting run from December to March.
Verbenaceae
Verbena/Teak family
Tharoi Pijup belongs to the Verbenaceae family.
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