Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS022 : Triumfetta annua L.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 60

Synonym : Triumfetta nana Bojer.; Triumfetta nipaulensis G.Don.; Triumfetta schimperi Hochst.; Triumfetta suffruticosa Blume.; Triumfetta trichoclada DC.; Triumfetta triclada Link.;

Plant Common Name : Orange Burr-Bush, Paroquet-burr, Common Burbush, Chiki, Karottai,

Plant Family : Tiliaceae

Description : Herbs annual, or subshrubs. Branchlets yellow-brown tomentose. Stipule narrowly triangular; petiole 1-7.5 cm, sparsely simple-pilose; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-13 × 3-7 cm, papery, sparsely pilose, both surfaces simple-pilose, basal veins 3-5, 2 lateral ones ascending beyond 1/2 blade, base rounded or subcordate, margin serrate, apex caudate or acuminate. Peduncle very short. Pedicel 3-6 mm, villous. Bracts 2-3 mm, villous. Flower bud nearly glabrous. Sepals ca. 5 mm, tips appendaged. Petals oblanceolate, slightly shorter than sepals. Stamens 10. Ovary 3- or 4-loculed, spiny; style very short; stigma 2-3-lobed. Capsule impressed globose, ca. 6 mm in diam., spiny, dehiscent, 3- or 4-valved; spines 3-7 mm, glabrous or hairy at base, tip hooked. Fl. autumn.

Plant Location in Melghat : Among tall grasses on chilkhaldar & Vairat

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Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200013658 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Orange%20Burr_Bush.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Triumfetta+annua - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33346

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Malvales
Family : Tiliaceae - Linden family
Genus : Triumfetta L. - burbark
Species : Triumfetta annua L.

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