Barhanta / Forget-Me-Not
Tragia involucrata
Also known as Indian Stinging Nettle
- Habit
- Climber
- Found in India
- Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Barhanta
Identify Barhanta by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climber habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Stinging hairs cause a nettle-like rash.
- Confirm leaf margin: Toothed.
- Confirm leaf surface: Hirsute (coarsely hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Green.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Tragia involucrata
- Genus
- Tragia
- Family
- Euphorbiaceae
- Habit
- Climber
- Habitat
- Scrub forests and wastelands
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Himalayas, China, Myanmar, Nepal
- Found in India
- Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Puducherry, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf margin
- ToothedrecordedA saw-like or jagged edge (serrate or dentate).“Leaves 6-10 x 3-5.5 cm, ovate or elliptic, base acute or rounded, margin serrate, apex acuminate, hispidulous on both sides;” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Barhanta itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- GreenrecordedGreen or greenish
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Barhanta itself; the rest are typical of the Euphorbiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- बढन्त Barhanta, पीत पर्णी Pit Parni, বিছুটি
- Nepali
- उट कटेरी Ut Kateri
- Bengali
- বিছুটি Bichuti, বিছুটি
- Tamil
- காஞ்சொறி Kanchori, செந்தட்டி Senthatti
- Kannada
- ತುರಿಕೆ ಬಳ್ಳಿ Turike Balli
- Malayalam
- ചൊറിയണം Coriyanam, Cherukodithuva, Choriyanam, കൊടിത്തൂവ
- Marathi
- आग पान Aag Paan, आग्या Aagya, कळलावी Kallaavi
About Barhanta
Forget-me-not (Tragia involucrata) belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family, where it grows as a climber. In India it has been recorded in Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and 7 other states. It grows in scrub forests and wastelands. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Euphorbiaceae
Spurge/Euphorbia family
Barhanta belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family.
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