Xanthium strumarium

 

Family: ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE

Malayalam Name(s): Otta, Ottukai

English name(s): Burweed, Cocklebur, Rough cocklebur

Habit: Herb

Flowering & Fruiting: March-December

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Deciduous forests, also in the plains

Description: Erect herbs, stem terete, scabrid. Leaves 8-15 x 9-10 cm, broadly ovate, shallowly lobed, base cordate, 3-ribbed, scabrous; petiole 8-10 cm long. Heads axillary; bisexual heads in upper axils and sterile female heads in lower axils; bracts few, free in bisexual heads, united into a two horned utricle in female heads, covered with hooks; corolla absent in female flowers, tubular in bisexual flowers; anthers free, filaments connate; bases obtuse. Achenes 1.5 x 0.7 cm, paired on each head, enclosed in a 2-beaked utricle; pappus absent.

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