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Species
Tribulus terrestris L. (1753)
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
"Notes: Western Ghats, Degraded areas in Dry Deciduous Forests"
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Flower
In axillary, solitary; yellow. Flowering from January-April.
Fruit
A 5-angled schizocarp, woody, each with a pair of unequal spines; seed solitary per coccus. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Branchlets and leaves densely white sericeous.
Leaf Arrangement
Subopposite
Leaf Type
Paripinnate
Leaf Shape
Oblong
Leaf Apex
Acute-mucronate
Leaf Base
Obtuse-cuneate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Fl.Per.: Almost throughout the year.
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Roots and fruits are used in traditional medicine.
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Herbs, annual, prostrate, glabrous, pubescent, or hispid. Branches 20-60 cm. Leaves opposite, even-pinnate, 1.5-5 cm, with 6-16 leaflets; leaflet blades oblong to obliquely oblong, 5-10 × 2-5 mm, base slightly oblique, margin entire, apex acute to obtuse. Flower ca. 1 cm in diam. Pedicel shorter than leaves. Sepals persistent. Stamens inserted on base of disk, with scale-form appendages. Ovary 5-angled, 5-locular, with 3 or 4 ovules per locule; stigma 5-parted. Schizocarp 4-6 mm, hard, pubescent or glabrous, with 5 carpels with 2 hardened 4-6 mm spines at mid margin, surface spiny or prickly. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jun-Sep. 2n = 24, 30, 36, 48.
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Annual.
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Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Herb
Annual or biennial, prostrate, densely appressed whitish silky pubescent herb. Stem hirsute to sericeous, branches spreading. Leaves paripinnate, 2.5-5 cm long; stipules lanceolate to falcate, 3-5 mm long; leaflets (4-) 5-6(-8) pairs ovate to elliptic-oblong, 5-10(-12) mm long, 3-8 mm broad, inequilateral, acute. Flowers yellow, 1-1.5 cm across; pedical up to 1.5(-2) cm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, acute. Petals obovate, 6-8 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, obtuse. Stamens 10, filaments c. 3-5 mm long, anthers versatile. Ovary ovoid, hirsute; style c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas decurrent. Fruit up to c. 1 cm in diameter, 4-8 mm long, mericarps densely crested and tuberculate on dorsal side, densely hairy to glabrescent, with 2 long patent and 2 short downwardly directed spines (rarely all or lower 2 reduced to tubercles).
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Annual.
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It is a pubescent annual plant that reaches up to 15-30 cm long with prostrate stems. Leaves are compound with 3-5 pairs of ovate-elliptic leaflets. Flowers are with yellow petals and lanceolate sepals. The fruit is 5-8 mm diameter, pyramidal with sparsely to densely hairy mericarps which are unarmed or with 2 small basal spines.
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