Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Achyranthes prostrata L. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Decumbent herbs. Leaves opposite, 5-7 x 2-3.5 cm, rhomboid, acute at both ends, thinly pubescent; petiole 5-15 mm long. Spike terminal, to 18 cm long, slender, solitary. Flowers in groups of 3-5 of which one perfect and others neutor; bracts and bracteoles similar, 1.5 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; tepals 5, free, 3 x 1 mm, elliptic, acute, hooked awn like in neutor flowers; stamens 5, filaments united into a membranous truncate cup; staminodes membranous, alternate with stamens, fimbriate; ovary ovoid, style simple, stigma capitellate. Achenes 2 x 1 mm, obovoid, compressed, golden brown.
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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Habit: Herb
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
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats , Moist Deciduous Forests
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 |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests, also in the plains
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 |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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 |
| References |
Maharashtra: Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Nilgiri, Tirunelveli
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 |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Kerala, Karnataka, Manipur, Tamil Nadu; Africa, Australia, America
Local Distribution
Kamrup, Bongaigaon, Barak Valley
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=711
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=711 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Achyranthes prostrata L., Sp. Pl. (ed. 2) 296. 1762.
- Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume, Bijdr. 549. 1826; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 722. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1172(820). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 243. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 331. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 314. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 379. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 335. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 672. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 378. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 294. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 9, 15, 21; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 370. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 254. 1997; Sasidh. & Anto in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 136. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 329. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 259. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 256. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 541. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 407. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 595. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 672. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=711
Information Listing > References
- Achyranthes prostrata L., Sp. Pl. (ed. 2) 296. 1762.
- Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume, Bijdr. 549. 1826; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 722. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1172(820). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 243. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 331. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 314. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 379. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 335. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 672. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 378. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 294. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 9, 15, 21; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 370. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 254. 1997; Sasidh. & Anto in Manoharan et al., Silent Valley-Whispers Reason 136. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 329. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 259. 1999; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 256. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 541. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 407. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 595. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 672. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=711
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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 | Cyathula |
| Species | Cyathula prostrata (L.) Blume |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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