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Gomphrena globosa L.
Synonym
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Amaranthoides globosa
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Family
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Amaranthaceae
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Local name
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English - Bachelor's buttons
Malayalam – Vadamalli
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Flowering and fruiting period
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June-August
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Distribution
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Native of Tropical America, cultivated in
the warmer region of the world
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Distribution in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as ornamental plant
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Uses
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Used as a garden plant. ,The flowers are
boiled to make a tea which is used for baby gripe, oliguria, cough and
diabetes
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Key Botanical Characters: Annual herb, stem
and branches striate or sulcate, densely clothed with appressed white hairs
at least when young. Leaves broadly lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong,
narrowed to an ill-defined petiole below, thinly pilose on both surfaces, the
pair of leaves subtending the terminal inflorescence sessile or almost so,
broadly to subcordate-ovate. Inflorescences sessile above the uppermost pair
of leaves, usually solitary, globose or depressed-globose, pinkish to deep
red; bracts deltoid-ovate, 3-5 mm, mucronate with the shortly excurrent
midrib; bracteoles strongly laterally compressed, navicular, mucronate with
the excurrent midrib, furnished from the apex almost to the base of the
dorsal surface of the midrib with a broad, irregularly dentate crest. Seeds
compressed-ovoid, brown, almost smooth and shining.
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