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Burr Mallow
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Burr Mallow
ative Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Burr Mallow, caesarweed, Congo jute, hibiscus burr, pink burr, pink Chinese burr, urena burr • Bengali: কঙ্গুয়া kungooya • Gujarati: વગડાઉ ભીંડો vagadau bhindo • Kachchhi: સણ ભીંડો san bhindo • Kannada: ಬೆಕ್ಕಿನ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ ಗಿಡ bekkina hejje gida, ಕಾಡು ತುತ್ತಿ kaadu thutthi • Malayalam: ഊരം uram, ഉത്തിരം uthiram • Manipuri: ꯁꯝꯄꯥꯛꯄꯤ sampakpi • Marathi: रानकापशी raan kapashi • Sanskrit: अतिबला atibala, बला bala, नागबला nagabala • Tamil: ஒட்டுத்துத்தி ottu-t-tutti • Telugu: నల్ల బెండ nalla benda, పడనికాడ padanikaada, పెద్ద బెండ pedda benda, పిల్లిమంకెన piliyamankena • Tulu: ಬೊಳ್ಡು ಉರ್ಕಿ boldu urki Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Urena lobata subsp. sinuata    Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Urena sinuata, Urena lobata var. sinuata
Burr Mallow is an erect annual herbs. Leaves plametly deeply lobed, alternate, 6 x 7 cm, base flat, velvety woolly on both sides, to 7-ribbed at base. Flowers arise in leaf-axils, usually solitary, sometimes 2 or 3 in a cluster; flower-stalks 3-8 mm long. Involucral bracts 5, 5-6 x 1.5-2 mm, fused at base, clothed with rigid hairs. Sepal-cup 5-9 mm long, bell-shaped, 5-parted; sepals ovate-elliptic, margins velvet-hairy. Flowers are pink with dark center; petals to 15 x 9 mm, obovate with rounded tip, star-shaped-hairy without. Staminal column, pinkish; anthers pale pink. Fruit is 1-1.2 cm across, spherical; mericarps 5, to 8 x 5 mm, trigonous, densely star-shaped-velvet-hairy, also with many glochidate spines; seeds to 4 mm long, kidney-shaped, angular. The genus name Urena comes from its Malayalam local name Uren. This plant is closely related to Caesarweed, which has leaves with lobes pointed, and not rounded.
Identification credit: Dinesh Valke Photographed at Kharghar Hills, Navi Mumbai.
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