Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Distribution notes: Exotic
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Chenopodium ambrosioides L. |
| synonym | Chenopodium ambrosioides var. suffruticosum (Willd.) Asch. & Graebn. |
| synonym | Chenopodium integrifolium Vorosch. |
| synonym | Chenopodium opulifolium subsp. amboanum Murr |
| synonym | Chenopodium suffruticosum Willd. |
| synonym | Teloxys ambrosioides (L.) W. A. Weber |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Erect pungent smelling herbs, profusely branching. Leaves alternate, to 8 x 3 cm, elliptic to lanceolate, entire to deeply lobed, base attenuate, glabrous, membranous; upper leaves smaller. Flowers bisexual, minute, sessile, clustered in terminal and axillary cymes; perianth 5-lobed, herbaceous, green; stamens 5, free; ovary 1-celled, with solitary ovule; styles 3; stigmas 3. Fruit a utricle enclosed by the persistent perianth.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Degraded forests and wastelands
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Native of Tropical America; widely introduced elsewhere
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Wayanad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Maharastra, Meghalaya; Tropical America
Local Distribution
Bongaigaon, Barak Valley, Kamrup (Guwahati), Nagaon
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants, Ukrayins'k. Bot. Zhurn. 59: 382 2002.
- Chenopodium ambrosioides L., Sp. Pl. 219. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 4. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1181(827). 1925; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 380. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 389. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 331. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 262. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 257. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 409. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 675. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants, Ukrayins'k. Bot. Zhurn. 59: 382 2002.
- Chenopodium ambrosioides L., Sp. Pl. 219. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 4. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1181(827). 1925; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 380. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 389. 1990; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 331. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 262. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 257. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 409. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 675. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Dysphania |
| Species | Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants |
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