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Acalypha malabarica
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Family:
EUPHORBIACEAE
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Citation: Acalypha malabarica Muell.-Arg., Linnaea 34: 42. 1865-66; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 416. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1330(930). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 269. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 352. 1989; Rani & Balakr., J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 31: 96. 2007; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 126. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 618. 2009.
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Description:
Annual herbs. Levaes alternate, 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm, ovate, acute, margins toothed, hispd on both sides; basally 3-nerved; petioles often longer than the lamina. All spikes axillary and sessile, short, up to 3 cm long, androgynous, finely pubescent. Male flowers ca 0.5 mm across, very few, clustered near the apex of spikes. Female flowers 2-2.5 mm across, 6-8 along the basal portion of the spike; bracts alternate, foliaceous, subcampanulate, funnel-shaped, folded, ca 5 mm across, shallowly toothed, bordered with long gland-tipped hairs along peripheral portion and margin, pilose, hairy or nearly glabrous, roughly coriaceous, gland-dotted, many-nerved.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-December
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District(s):
Kottayam, Alappuzha, Kozhikkode, Kollam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Wastelands and roadsides
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Green, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Alappuzha beach
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