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False Mallow, Broom weed, Clock plant, Prickly malvastrum Vernacular name |
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| Scientific name | Malvastrum coromandelianum L., M. tricuspidatum | |
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| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A strong-stemmed, woody-rooted herb, growing to 1 m tall. Usually smaller, velvel-hairy with characteristic 4-rayed hairs.. | |
| Leaves | Leaves are ovate or ovate-elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, sharp or blunt tipped, margins serrated, 3-nerved from base. Leaf stalks are 1.5-4 cm long | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Light yellow flowers in leaf axils. Flowers are yellow, about 1.3 cm broad, with 5 petals. Petals-obovate, very shallowly asymmetrically lobed at the tip. Flowers occasionally paired or terminal. | |
| Fruit/ seed | Fruit is about 6 mm broad, seeds kidney-shaped, ripe carpel with a few stiff hairs and 2 stubby points on the convex side. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Arable lands, fallow alnds, wastelands | |
| Flowering and fruiting | July - December | |
| Associated with | Upland flora | |
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