IUCN Status
: Not Applicable
Author: Neetu Kumari
Hi! Neetu this side, I'm a keen observer of the nature around me since my childhood and I always wanted to share the beauty of the mother nature with others too, so, I'm here to share my observations about plants.
- साटा/Sata (Shekhawati), Horse Purslane,Desert Horse Purslane, Giant Pigweed, Gujarati: Satodo, Hindi: Sabuni, Salsabuni, Svetsabuni, Vishakhapara, Samskrit: Chiratika, Dhanapatra, Dirghapatrika. (Source: Flowers of India)
- Trianthema monogynum, Trianthema procumbens, Portulaca axilliflora
- Khetri
- Naturally grown
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Native, succulent, annual herb with numerous prostrate branches.
Root: Tap root, much branched.
Uses: As a part of fodder for cattles and, shoot and tender leaves cooked and eaten as greens in local cuisine.Source: Gurcharan Singh
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Trianthema portulacastrum: Shoot and Habit
Stem: Aerial, creeping, much branched, often tinged purple, herbaceous, succulent, solid, angular-ribbed, pustular, with fine lines of hairs on younger branches. Leaves: Opposite, with unequal pairs of leaves, branches usually arising from axil of smaller leaf of each pair, petiole almost as long as blade, dilated towards base with wing-like stipules, sheathing nodes, blade suborbicular to obovate, cuneate towards base, apex rounded, truncate or retuse, venation unicostate reticulate. -
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Trianthema portulacastrum: Inflorescence and Flower
Inflorescence: Solitary flowers in leaf axil. Flower: Ebracteate, in axile of pouch-like petiole base, bracteolate, bracteoles two, fused with calyx, sessile, complete, actinomorphic, bisexual, perigynous, pentamerous. Calyx: 5, United below, 5-lobed, valvate, lobes green outside, pinkish within, some what hood-like, with horn-like projections on back of each lobe below tip. Corolla: Absent. Androecium: 5-20, inserted on hypanthium in two or more whorls, free, filaments slender, anthers bithecous, dorsifixed. Gynoecium: Bicarpellary syncarpous, ovary, half-inferior, bilocular, placentation axile, ovules many style simple, stigmas 2. Fruits: Capsule, closely invested by petiolar sheath and calyx tube, reddish brown to black in color, seeds 5-10.
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