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| Vernacular name | Latjeera, Puthkunda, Ultekanta | |
| Scientific name | Achyranthus aspera Linn. | |
| Family | Amaranthaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Erect and document herb | |
| Leaves | Opposite, short petioled, existipulate, obvate-orbicular or elliptic, acuminate or slightly flexious | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Small, greenish white, sessile, deflexed on terminal spikes |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Ovoid utricle | |
| Habitat and distribution | Wastelands | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September to December | |
| Associated with | Kharif flora | |
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