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Species
Achyranthes aspera L.
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Comments: Open, dry, disturbed habitats (e.g. roadsides).
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Slender erect perennial, sometimes climbing or scrambling. The leaves are often covered in silvery indumentum when young (less noticeable in shade growing specimens) Inflorescences dense at first but elongating up to 25 cm with more widely spaced flowers. Flowers greenish to silvey-white, often tinged with purple-red.
Abundant in plantation of the hills. Plains upto 1400m. Tropics.
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aspera: rough
Hillsides, waste places, roadsides, riverbanks; 800-2300 m.
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Stout perennial herb. Var. pubescens is a more robust plant with larger and more colourful flowers than var. sicula, a slender scrambling herb with silvery undersides to the undersurface of the young leaves.
Common
aspera: rough
Occasional
A naturalized weed of uncertain origin now widespread in the tropics and subtropics of the world