Family

Botanical name

Description

Acanthaceae Juss

Barleria hochstetteri (Nees)

A small woody spineless shrub, coverd with soft hairs. Leaves oblong with appressed silky hair. Flower usually pinkish-white with few dark streaks. Fruit capsule.

Blepharis sindica (stock ex Anders)

A small prostrate erect dichotomously branched spiny herb. Leaves in whorls, liner-oblong with spiny bracts. Inflorescence a strobilute spike. Flowers mauve. Fruit capsule, ellipsoid. Vern. Assad/Bhangari.

Justica heterocarps (Anders.)

A small herb with glandular hairs. Stem angular. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire. Flowers very small, pinkish, fruit dimorphic, capsule.

Aϊzoaceae Rudolphi.

Carbichonia decumbens (Forsk) Exell.

Fleshy, prostrate to semi-errect ± radish herb. Leaves elliptic-ovate to obovate, cartilegenous, grayish-green. Inflorescence cyme. Flower dark pink. Seed strophiolate, compressed, black, glossy.

Zaleya pentandra (L.) Jeffrey

Prostrate herbs. leaves oblong, obovate with sheathing base. Flowers solitary, white to pale pink. Seed black, rugose.

Amaranthaceae Juss.

Achyranthes aspera Linn.

Small herbs, erect to semi-prostrate. Stem 4-angled. Leaves oblong-elliplical or oval acute. Flower in terminal spikes, white to pale green or red or purple. Fruit capsule. Vern. Path Kanda.

Aerva javanica (Burm f.) Jess Ex-Schult.

White woody, deselytomentose herb. Stem much branched, leaves alternate, linear to linear lanceolate. Inflorescence of sessile spikes. Flower diocious, male flowers smaller, perianth colorless. Fruit capsules. Seed round, brown-black, glossy. Vern Booh.

Amaranthus viridis Linn

Small green herbs, found near water sources. Leaves glabulour, ovate-deploid to rhomboid. Inflorescence panicle. Flowers small, male and female intermixed, perianth pale-green. Fruit capsule of irregular shape, seed brown-black. Vern. chilgah.

Celosia orgentea Linn.

An erect much branched herb. Leaves linear, oblanceolate, acute, entire, leaf axils often with small branches. Inflorescence spike. Flower small, pale green. Fruit capsule, globular. Seed black, glossy. Vern Lular.

Apocynaceae Juss.

Rhazia stricta Decne.

Dominant and common on all places, small evergreen shrub, leaves linear-lanceolate or elliplical to oblanceolate, becoming yellowish after maturation, sessile, entire, tapening on both ends. Flowers white, with little fragrant. Fruit follicles. Seeds brown small with short wings. Vern sainwar, sahaer, shanbor.