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Lotus Sweetjuice
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Lotus Sweetjuice
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Common name: Lotus Sweetjuice, damascisa • Assamese: পদ্মাক্ষী শাক padmakshi shak • Bengali:আলুঘাস alughasa, দশেরা শাক dasera saka • Gujarati: ધોળો ઓખરાડ dholo okharad, મીઠો ઓખરાડ mitho okharad • Hindi: गंधी बूटी gandhi buti • Kannada: ಚಂದ್ರ ಕಾಸಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು chandra kaasi soppu, ಕಾಗ ಪುರಳೆ ಗಿಡ kaaga purale gida • Konkani: कडवी भाजी kadvi bhaji • Marathi: कडवी भाजी kadvi bhaji • Punjabi: ਗੰਦੀ ਬੂਟੀ gandhi buti • Rajasthani: बकडो bakado, गंधी बूटी gandhi buti • Tamil: செருப்படை ceruppatai • Telugu: చాదరాసి కూర chadrasi koora, తెల్ల పొరకు thella poraku, తెల్ల పుని thella puni Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Glinus lotoides    Family: Molluginaceae (Carpetweed family)
Synonyms: Mollugo lotoides, Mollugo hirta
Lotus Sweetjuice is an annual prostrate herb up to 40 cm long, with various parts woolly. Leaves are 0.6-2.0 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm broad, round or more or less wedge-shaped, often with a sharp point at the tip, stalk 2-8 mm long. Flowers are borne in stalkless clusters of 5-6, in leaf axils. Flower stalks are up to 1.5 mm long, sepals 4-4.5 mm long, up to 7 mm in fruit, persistent, ovate to ovate-oblong. Fertile stamens are 12. Stigmas are 5, linear, about 1 mm long, persistent. Capsule is round or oblong, about 6 mm long, membranous, enclosed in the sepals. Seeds are many, less than 1 mm long. Flowering: February-May.
Identification credit: M.M. Sardesai Photographed at Lohagad, near Lonavala, Maharashtra.
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