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Chocolate Weed, Wire bush, Redweed |
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| Vernacular name | Tikiokra, Bilpat, Chitrabee | |
| Scientific name | Melochia corchorifolia | |
| Family | Sterculiaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | A erect, branched annual herb or undershrub, 1.5-2 ft or more, with hollow stems-stellate tomentose, or sometimes prostrate. Flowers occur in terminal clusters. Leaves are ovate, rounded or very slightly cuneate at base, pointed at the tip, 3-6 cm long, u | |
| Leaves | Obscurely 3-lobed, basally 3-5 nerved, thiny stellate-hairy beneath. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Small flowers, white or pinkish in densely crowded interminal and axillary. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Capsule, locucidally 5-valved, sparingly hairy. Seeds-triangular, mottled black. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Open areas near wethabitants. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | July - October | |
| Associated with | Wasteland flora | |
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