Habit: An errect or straggling herb, upto 70cm.
Achyranthes aspera L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Achyranthes acuminata E. Mey. ex Cooke & Wright |
synonym | Achyranthes canescens R. Br. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
An erect undershrub up to 3 ft., lower portion perennial. Leaves opposite, variable. Branches pubescent, striate. Flowers greenish. It is common under growth, with sharp spiny bracteoles and pungent tips of the perianth which sticks to the cloths
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Flower
In axillary or terminal spikes; yellowish-white. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
An urticle, falling off with bracteoles and perianths; seed solitary. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
The fruit easily sticks to clothes and animal skin. Stem furrowed and tinged red, nodes hairy.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Elliptic-obovate
Leaf Apex
Obtuse-acute
Leaf Base
Cuneate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Wastelands, road sides
Abundant in plantation of the hills. Plains upto 1400m. Tropics.
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Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, South India, Uttar Pradesh
Local Distribution
Throughout Assam
Found along roadsides, and fallow lands from plains to 1400m. Common. Asia to Australia.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Homoeopathy
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
Sowa-Rigpa
Young plant are used as vegetable during April - May, also it has some medicinal value
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
The slender roots served as a tooth stick to clean the teeth. Fresh leaves together with other spinach greens are cooked and eaten. The seeds are also cooked and eaten believed to suppress hunger.
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Homoeopathy, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=42
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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=42
Information Listing > References
- 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=42
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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 | Achyranthes |
Species | Achyranthes aspera L. |
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