Flora of the Nilgiris

Habit : A small herb.

Habitat and Distribution : Locally abundant as a weed in fallow lands, wayside, dry river beds or even in very poor soils. Plains from the coast upto 900m.Native to tropical Africa, south Arabia, tropical Australia and Malaysia.

Indigenous Information : Leaves used in traditional medicine. Cattle stay away from it.

Field Tips : Foetid when broken. Whole plant is glandular hairy.

 

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Names:

English : Yellow Spider Flower
Irula : Kaatu belai
Tamil : Naivelai, Naikadugu
Hindi : Hurhur
Malayalam : Ariavala

Flower:

In racemes, yellow. Flowering throughout the year.

Fruit :

A capsule, terete, glandular hairy.  Seeds many, glabrous with transverse ridges, prominent, concentric ones faint. Fruiting throughout the year.