• Family : Urticaceae
  (Nettle Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BICHCHHOO FAMILY (बिच्छू फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Urticaceae
• Basionym : Procris peduncularis Royle
• Synonym(s) : Lecanthus wightii Wedd.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lecanthus peduncularis (Royle) Wedd.
• Common name : Stalked Dischead
• Vernacular name : Gakaleti, Ganthe golia, Goliko (Nepali)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Forest
• Comments / notes : Rare on mossy rocks in moist and shaded places
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Distribution :
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
• Native : Bioko to Ethiopia and Malawi, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to SW. Pacific
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 367; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 2. Published BSI: 651; Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 261
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Lecanthus peduncularis. Downloaded on 1 October 2023.

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