| Toothed Bract Indian Copperleaf |
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| Original date | 8/27/08 12:14 PM |
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| Focal length | 82.8mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
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| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-FZ18 |
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Botanical name: Acalypha lanceolata Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Acalypha boehmerioides
Synonyms: Acalypha boehmerioides
Toothed Bract Indian Copperleaf is an erect annual herb 10-100 cm tall.
Male and female flower reside on the same plant. Stems are longitudinally
grooved, velvety. Alternately arranged leaves are ovate 1-8 cm long, 0.8-5
cm wide, pointed to long-pointed at the tip, rounded at the base. Leaf
margins are coarsely toothed, surfaces densely velvety, gland-dotted.
Leaf-stalks is 0.5-5 cm long. Flowers are born in 1-4 spikes, 0.5-3 cm
long, in leaf axils. The flowers lower on the spike are female, upper ones
male. Male flowers are minute, less than 0.5 mm in diameter, clustered.
Female flowers are subtended by a cup-shaped bract 1.5-3 mm long with a
toothed margin. Fruit is a velvety, 3-lobed pod, 1-2 mm long, splitting
into 3 one-seeded segments. Toothed Bract Indian Copperleaf is native to
Indian subcontinent, Arabian Peninsula, China and parts of Africa.
Flowering: March-October.
Identification credit: Ajinkya Gadave
| Photographed at Nirlon Knowledge Park, Mumbai. |