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Devils claw, ice plant, small fruit devils claw |
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| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Kakanasika, | |
| Scientific name | Martynia annua L. | |
| Family | Poaceae | |
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| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Opposite, densely glandular hairy. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower |  |
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| Fruit/ seed | Fruit woody with 2 long curved horns, glandular-pubescent, splitting into 2 valves. Seeds-4 | |
| Habitat and distribution | Naturalized in wastelands along roads and open forests | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to December | |
| Associated with | Roadside flora | |
| Habit | Erect, widely branched, vicid, densely, glandular-long-hairy, annual herb or slender shrub. Stem fistular, purplish green, sticky. | |
| Inflorescence | Large, drooping in short axillary and terminal racemes purple with yellow throat. | |
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