Habit: A small spreading herb, upto 75cm.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Achyranthes atropurpurea Lam. |
| synonym | Achyranthes lappacea L. |
| synonym | Achyranthes patula L. f. |
| synonym | Desmochaeta atropurpurea (Lam.) DC. |
| synonym | Desmochaeta flavescens DC. |
| synonym | Pupalia atropurpurea (Lam.) Moq. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In terminal, unbranched spikes; purplish-green. Flowering from November-February.
Fruit
A deppressed-globose capsule, top areolate, surrounded by 5-20, persistent, stellately spreading hooked bristles. Fruiting December onwards.
Field tips
Leaves densely sericeous below. Outer and inner tepals 3-nerved.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-ovate
Leaf Apex
Acutely apiculate
Leaf Base
Truncate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Found along road sides, scrub jungles and thickets from plains to 500m. Common. Peninsular India, Sri Lanka and E.Africa.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu
Local Distribution
Assam
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Pupalia |
| Species | Pupalia lappacea (L.) Juss. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
