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Alternanthera bettzickiana
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Family:
AMARANTHACEAE
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Citation: Alternanthera bettzickiana (Regel) Voss in Vilmorin, Blumengartn. (ed 3) 1: 869. 1896; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 253. 1997.
Telanthera betzickiana Regel, Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1862: 28. 1862.
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Description:
Erect or ascending, bushy perennial herbs, up to 5-45 cm; stem and branches villous when young but soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite, 1-3.5 x 0.5-2 cm, narrowly or more broadly elliptic to oblanceolate or rhomboid-ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, long-attenuate into an indistinctly demarcated petiole below, often purple-suffused and not rarely variegated. Heads axillary, sessile, usually solitary, globose or ovoid, 5-6 mm in diameter. Tepals white, lanceolate, acute, mucronate with the excurrent midrib, the outer 3 prominently 3-nerved below and darker in the nerved area, with a line of minutely barbellate white hairs along each side of this area, the hairs becoming denser towards the base of the tepal; inner 2 tepals slightly shorter, usually 1-2 nerved. Pseudo-staminodes as long as the filaments, laciniate at the apex.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-February
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Degraded deciduous forests and wastelands
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Distribution:
Native of Tropical America; now getting naturalised in Asia
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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):
White
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Weed:
Yes
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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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:
Kattalappara
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