Tragia involucrata L. - Flickr - lalithamba

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Description: Family: Euphorbiacea Local name(Telugu): Duradagondi Distribution: Found among bushes near fields, Found in Indian sub continent and China. Twinig herbs, branches trailing or straggling, distinct by stinging hairs, Leaves elliptic, lanceolate, entire or lobed, serrate, acute; Flowers greenish yellow in axillary androgynous spikes;calyx 3-5 in male flowers, 6 in female flowers, lobees enlarged, hardened and spreading stellately in fruit, petals 0, stamens 3, ovary 3 celled, styles united into a clumn and spreading above; Capsule sub globose, 3 lobed with accrescent perianth. Date: 9 June 2010, 19:10. Source: Tragia involucrata L.. Author: Lalithamba from India.