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| Vernacular name | Patherchata | |
| Scientific name | Trianthema portulacastrum L. | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | An annual herb forming a prostrate mat or clump with stems up to a meter long, green to red in color, hairless except for small lines of hairs near the leaves, and fleshy. | |
| Leaves | Leaves opposite, margins serrated. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Flowers surrounded by involucral bracts, outer ones green, inner chaffy. Ray florets yellow Pappus of short awns. Solitary flowers occur in leaf axils. The flower lacks petals but has purple, petal like sepals. Flowers - yellow. | |
| Fruit/ seed | The fruit -curved, cylindrical capsule emerging from the stem. It is up to half a centimeter long and has two erect, pointed wings on top, where the capsule opens. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Marshy places | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November - January | |
| Associated with | Upland flora | |
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