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| Vernacular name | Sugandha-vastooka | |
| Scientific name | Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants | |
| Family | Chenopodiaceous | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaves mostly lanceolate, 3-14 cm long, green, with numerous yellow glands, especially below margin, particularly of the lower leaves, with up to 10 irregular teeth. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Depressed, globose, finely papillate, seeds smooth. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Found rarely in crop and plantation | |
| Flowering and fruiting | February to March | |
| Associated with | Rabi flora | |
| Habit | Erect much branched, aromatic annual herb, rarely a short-lived perennial, up to 180 cm high. Stems green, rarely tinged red. | |
| Inflorescence | Minute flowers in sessile yellowish clusters or glomerules along the ultimate branches, together forming large branched heads. | |
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