False Nettle is a perennial herb or subshrub, growing to 1-3 m. Membranous
leaves are variable, ovate to elliptic or nearly circular, 7-25 x 4-15 cm,
with a narrow tip. Leaf base is rounded, sometimes wedge-shaped or heart-
shaped, and margins are toothed with teeth 2-3 mm broad and deep, of
uniform size throughout. Leaves are nearly smooth or somewhat velvety,
with no stinging hairs, hence called false nettle. Leaf stalks are
slender, 3-10 cm. Male flower spikes are 7-10 cm long, paniculately
branched at base. Female spikes are usually unbranched, solitary, 10-15 or
up to 30 cm, slender or stout, sometimes pendulous. Flower clusters are
3-5 mm diameter. Achenes are ellipsoid, 0.7 mm, bearing a hooked style.
Flowering: June-September.
Identification credit: Tony Rodd, Dinesh Valke
Photographed at Yeoor Hills, Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Maharashtra.
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