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Eryngium foetidum
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Family:
APIACEAE/UMBELLIFERAE
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Citation: Eryngium foetidum L., Sp. Pl. 232. 1753; Ellis & Karthik., Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 70:597. 1973(1974); P.K. Mukh. & Constance, Umbell. India 19. 1993; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 206. 1988; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 337. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 403. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
African-malli, Malli cheera
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Fitweed, Culantro, Long coriander, Mexican coriander
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Description:
An erect biennial herb 15-40 cm tall, strongly aromatic, its odour similar to that of coriander with furrowed stems, a short rootstock and fibrous roots. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong in outline, 4-12 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, margins crenate to finely spinosely serrate, base cuneate, sessile and glabrous. Flowers greenish, borne in dense, rounded cymes; involucral bracts 5-7, linear-lanceolate, 1-3 cm long and 3-7 mm wide, greatly exceeding the flower heads, leaf-like, spreading and reflexed with a few spiny teeth; flower heads cylindrical, 4-10 mm long and 3-5 mm broad, terminal on the branches or on short peduncles in the forks, sepals erect, lanceolate, longer than the petals, persistent, apex acute; petals greenish-white, oblanceolate to obovate, erect, clawed. Fruit globose or ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long, compressed, densely papillose.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-November
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District(s):
Kannur, Thrissur, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Idukki, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Indigenous to Central America; introduced and sometimes cultivated in Tropical Africa and Tropical and Subtropical Asia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Green
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
Yes
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Chandanathode, Manantody
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