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Creeping chaffed weed |
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| Vernacular name | Khaki weed | |
| Scientific name | Alternanthera pungens Kuth | |
| Family | Amaranthaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Perennial herbs; stems prostrate, rarely ascending, sometimes rooting at the nodes, 1-5 dm long, pilose, the hairs multicellular. | |
| Leaves | Ovate to obovate, 0.5-4.5 cm long, 0.3-2 cm wide, glabrous to sparsely appressed pilose, petioles 2-10 mm long | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Sessile, sparsely pubescent spikes, bract ca. 4 mm long, tipped with a spine 2-3 mm long, bracteoles 3-4 mm long, acute; sepals unequal, the 2 abaxial ones 4-5 mm long, spine-tipped, the spine usually more than 2 mm long, other sepals not spine-tipped; st |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Utricles 1.2-1.5 mm long, enclosed by the sepals | |
| Habitat and distribution | Around houses, lawns, camp sites, overgrazed areas. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September-November | |
| Associated with | Road side flora | |
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