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Macheti, chati bhaji |
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| Vernacular name | Macheti, chati bhaji | |
| Scientific name | Polygonum plebeium L. | |
| Family | Polygonaceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaveslanceolate-spatulate, stipule hyaline. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Nutlets 3-gonous with persistent style, shining, black. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Beds of dry ponds | |
| Flowering and fruiting | October to March | |
| Associated with | Dry water bodies | |
| Habit | Prostate herb, forming carpets, above ground with flat branches from a woody root stock. Stems many from a thick base, often purple tinged, hairy but not wolly with short internodes. | |
| Inflorescence | Flowers pink or rosy, solitary, axillary or 2-3 together, sessile hidden among the stipules. | |
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