Girardinia palmata Gaudich.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae > Girardinia

Characteristics

A small shrub. It is woody at the base and keeps growing from year to year. It grows 2.5 m tall. It has bristles 5 mm long and stout stinging hairs. The stems are shoots are ridged. The leaves are broadly oval and hairy. They are 7-25 cm long by 6-15 cm wide and can have lobes arranged like fingers on a hand. The flowers are very small. The female flowers are in bristly spikes.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Mature height (meter) 2.5
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It is a subtropical plant. In Sikkim it grows between 900-2,500 m above sea level.
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Usage

The young leaves are boiled and eaten.
Uses medicinal
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use Digestive system diseases (leaf), General tonic for rejuvenation (leaf), Asthenia (root), Dysuria (root), Fatigue (root), Urologic diseases (root)
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:854103-1
WFO ID wfo-0001227712
COL ID 3G3ND
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Synonyms

Girardinia palmata