Habit: Herb
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
Flowering & fruiting occur almost through out the year
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
An erect branchy strong smelling undershrub or perennial herb up to 4 ft.heigh. Leaves smaller upwards, lower ones attaining average 6 cm in length, variable, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, sinute-toothed, upper entire. Flowers minute, sessile, clustered in axillary and terminal panicled spikes in the axils of foliaceous bracts, which increase in size downwards, the whole of the upper portion of the plant being converted into a leafy panicle when flowering. Perianth segments usually 4-5, rarely 6, elliptic acute, connate below, incurved. Stamens 4-6. Ovary globose, stigmas 3-5, very minute.. Fruit utricles, enclosed in persistent perianth
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Naturalized, Native of Tropical America
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Maharashtra: Pune, Raigad, Satara
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: Idukki, Kannur, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Salem, Theni, Tiruvannamalai, Tiruchchirappalli
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Assam Distribution
It is found through out the state
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Young leaves & shoots are eaten cooked as vegetable. The plant produce essential oil which is considered tonic and antispasmodic
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
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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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