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Species
Tribulus terrestris L. (1753)
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NCBI
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Canada
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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"Prostrate silky herbs. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate; leaflets opposite, 4-5 pairs, 1.5 x 0.7 cm, oblong; petiole to 7 mm, petiolule 1 mm, stipules 2-3 in cluster,ff persistent. Flowers axillary, 1 or 2, golden yellow, 2 cm across; pedicels to 3 cm,; sepals 5, 5 mm, linear; petals 5, 7 x 4 mm; stamens 10, filaments dilated at base, disc 10-lobed; ovary 5-lobed, hirsute with bulbous hairs; stigmas 5. Fruit 1 cm across, globose, 5-angled, cocci 5, woody, each with a pair of divaricate spines."
Canada
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Global Distribution
Tropical and warm temperate regions of the world
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Idukki, Kollam, Wayanad
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"Habit: A small prostrate herb, tupo 30cm."
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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"Maharashtra: Kolhapur Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara Kerala: Idukki, Kollam, Kottayam, Palakkad"
Habit: Prostrate herb
Puncture Vine is typically found at dry sunny sites with scant vegetation; the soil usually contains an abundance of sand or gravel. It forms root nodules with rhizobial bacteria and adds nitrogen to the soil. Range & Habitat
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"Found along the roadsides, wastelands and scrub jungles from plains to 500m. Common Tropical and temperate regions of the world."
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