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Prickly leaved Elephants Foot |
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| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Samdulan | |
| Scientific name | Elephantopus scaber Linn. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Radical, forming a spreading rosette on the ground. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower |  |
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| Fruit/ seed | Achenes hairy truncate, slightly pubescent, pappus white, one seriate, consisting of 5 rigid bristles dilated at the base. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Found in teak and sal forest black soil | |
| Flowering and fruiting | September to January | |
| Associated with | Blumea, Acanthospermum etc. | |
| Habit | Erect, subscapese, stems terete, simple below, corymbose branched at the top, strigose, with appressed white hairs. Deeply penetrating roots, giving off many stout fibrous roots. | |
| Inflorescence | Head-numerous, sessile, closely packed forming a large flat-topped terminal inflorescence, violet. | |
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