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Burr brush |
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| Vernacular name | Burr Bush, Chinese Burr, Diamond Burrbark, Chiriyari | |
| Scientific name | Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq. | |
| Family | Tiliaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaves simple, alternate blade ovate to rhomboid in shape with 3-5 lobes, sometimes nearly as wide as broad, and 2-10 cm long. Leaf margins irregularly serrate, leaf surfaces softly-pubescent with stellate hairs, blade palmately veined. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Fruit a subglobose bur with the body 3-4 mm in diameter, covered with 75-100 hooked spines 1.0 to 1.5 mm long | |
| Habitat and distribution | Roadside, wastelands | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October | |
| Associated with | Urena lobata and other roadside floa | |
| Habit | Erect, woody herb or shrub 75-150 cm in height. Stems glabrous, longitudinally grooved. | |
| Inflorescence | Flowers small yellow clustered, clustered on the leaf axils. Five yellow, obovate petals about 5 mm long. Stamens 10-15 | |
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