Pupalia lappacea

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  • Botanical Name : Pupalia lappacea (L.) Juss
  • Synonyms : Achyranthes lappacea L.
  • Common Name : Forest Burr, Creeping Cock's Comb, Dholozipto
  • Plant Family : Amaranthaceae
  • Plant Form : Herb
  • Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 9, 10, 22, 25-28, 30
  • Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Basan, Aranya Van

About Pupalia lappacea Plant :

  • Habit : A large hairy herb.
  • Leaves : Elliptic or ovate, acute, pointed, hairy base rounded.
  • Inflorescence : Flowers in close or distant clusters forming terminal spikes.
  • Flowers :
    • Pungent, hairy, bracteates, bracts remain on the rachis after the flowers fall, outer bracteole beneath the cluster, concave, ovate-oblong, pointed, imperfect flowers reduced to a number of unequal hooked awns, enlarged, spreading and yellow in fruit, each cluster of awns during the flowering period supported by acute 3 nerved awned bracteole.
    • Perianth of 5 sepals, lanceolate, equal, awned, 2-nerved, densely clothed with white wool.
    • Stamens 5, filaments connate at base.
    • Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, stigma capitate.
  • Fruit : Utricle oblong.
  • Flowering and Fruiting Time : August - December
  • Significance : A common weed.