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Alternanthera tenella bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp

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Alternanthera tenella bettzickiana (Regel) Veldkamp
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🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
Irula
  • Ragi pottu mullu
Tamil
  • Ottara mul
  • Thevadiyaal mul
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Diagnostic Keys
Description
Habit: A compact perennial herb, upto 75cm.
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    📚 Natural History
    Morphology
    Flower

    In axillary, globose, compact spike, white. Flowering December onwards.

    Fruit

    An urticle, circumscissile; seed erect, compressed, aril copular, 2-lobed. Fruiting throughout the year.

    Field tips

    Branchlets angular and villous.

    Leaf Arrangement

    Opposite-decussate

    Leaf Type

    Simple

    Leaf Shape

    (Obliquely)elliptic-(sub)orbicular

    Leaf Apex

    Acuminate

    Leaf Base

    Attenuate

    Leaf Margin

    Entire

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      📚 Habitat and Distribution
      Description
      Found along the stream and riverbanks and dam from plains to 1000m. Common. Native to Brazil, now widely naturalised throughout the tropics.
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        📚 Occurrence
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        📚 Uses and Management
        Uses
        The leaf is used in medicinal preparations.
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          📚 Meta data
          🐾 Taxonomy
          📊 Temporal Distribution
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