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Amaranthus caudatus
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Family:
AMARANTHACEAE
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Citation: Amaranthus caudatus L., Sp. Pl. 990. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 719. 1885; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1170(819). 1925; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 330. 1984; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 670. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 560. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 262. 1999; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 593. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 670. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chaulai
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Love Lies Bleeding
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Description:
Large, erect annual herbs; the whole plants red or purple suffused. Leaves 3-15 x 2-7 cm, ovate-oblong or rhomboid-ovate, base cuneate to attenuate, apex obtuse to subacute, mucronate; petiole to 7 cm long. Flowers in axillary and terminal red or green panicled spikes, to 20 cm long; male and female flowers intermixed throughout the spikes. Bract ovate, caudate-acuminate, aristate. Flowers unisexual. Perianth 5, 2-3.5 mm long, oblong-elliptic, aristate. Stamens 5 in male. Stigma 3-lobed, erect or flexuose. Utricle c. 2 mm long, ovoid-globose, circumscissile. Seeds 1-1.5 mm across, lenticular, compressed, black, shining.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Roadsides and wastelands
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Distribution:
Cosmopolitan
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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
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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:
Mannanchery, Karulai
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