Amaranthus tricolor L.
| Synonym : | Amaranthus gangeticus L. Amaranthus amboinicus Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Blitumgan geticum Moench Glomeraria tricolor (L.) Cav. |
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| Bangla Name : | Lalshak,Kankanotey,Denga, Puspoo(Bisnupriya Manipuri) |
| English Name : | Josep’s coat |
| Family : | Amaranthaceae |
| Disease : | - |
| Description : | Annual herb, ascending or erect. Stem stout, usually much-branched, it and the branches angular. Leaves glabrous, or thinly pilose on the lower surface of the primary venation, green or purplish-suffused, very variable in size,emarginate to obtuse or acute at the apex, at the base shortly cuneate to attenuate. Flowers green to crimson in ± globose, male and female flowers intermixed. Bracts and bracteoles broadly or deltoid-ovate. Perianth segments, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, narrowed above, pale-membranous,.Stigmas 3, erect or recurved. Capsule ovoid-urceolate with a short neck below the style-base, circumscissile, membranous, obscurely wrinkled. Seed black or brown, shining, very faintly reticulate, lenticular. |
| Distribution : | - |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | Laxative, limpoma (Tumor) |
| Habit : | Herb |