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Polygonum glabrum Willd.

Synonym: Persicaria glabra (Willd.) Gomez de la Maza
Polygonum glabrum Willd.
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🗒 Synonyms
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🗒 Common Names
Assamese
  • Bonriya Ghehu
English
  • Common Marsh Buckwheat
Malayalam
  • Chuvanna Mudela Mukkum
Tamil
  • Actalaree
  • Sivappu Kumbakodaali
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Diagnostic Keys
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📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower

In terminal racemes, pink. Flowering from September-May.

Fruit

A nutlet, compressed. Fruiting throughout the year.

Leaf Apices

Acuminate

Leaf arrangement

Alternate Spiral

Leaf Bases

Acute

Leaf Margins

Entire

Leaf Shapes

Lanceolate

Leaf Types

Simple

Habit

An annual herb.

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    An annual herb with suberect, smooth, reddish stem. Leaves narrow, lanceolate. Stipules a little ragged. Stamens seven. Style three-cleft. Seeds round
    Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
    Attributions Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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      Miscellaneous Details
      Flowers attract butterflies. Pungent young shoots are cooked with other shoots.
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        📚 Habitat and Distribution
        General Habitat
        Common, grows gregariously in marshy areas. Plains from the coast to 1400m. India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, South China, Africa, Afghanistan, South Japan, Malaysia.
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          Grows on shady moist places
          Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
          Attributions Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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            📚 Occurrence
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            📚 Uses and Management
            Uses
            Tender leaves and shoots are eaten as vegetable
            Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
            Attributions Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
            Contributors 
            Status UNDER_CREATION
            Licenses CC_BY
            References 
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              📚 Information Listing
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              📚 Meta data
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              🐾 Taxonomy
              RootRoot
              KingdomPlantae
              PhylumTracheophyta
              ClassMagnoliopsida
              OrderPolygonales
              FamilyPolygonaceae
              GenusPersicaria
              SpeciesPersicaria glabra (Willd.) Gomez de la Maza
              📊 Temporal Distribution
              📷 Related Observations
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