Yes Urticaceae member.
Produces a bad itch on touching the plant.
Has become a widespread weed in Pune too

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:

> These photographs I had initially mixed up with Boehmeria but is a much
> more delicate plant about 1 m tall with slender red petioles and small green
> flowers in loose clusters on an elogated inflorescence, photographed from
> roadside, growing among shrubs in shaded places, photographed on September
> 16, 2011
>
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> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired  Associate Professor
> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
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>
>


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Dr Satish Phadke

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