✿Amaranthaceae · Achyranthes
Putkanda / Ox Knee
Achyranthes bidentata
Herboutdoor
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Achyranthes bidentata
- Genus
- Achyranthes
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- India, Indo-Malaysia, East-Asia, Australia
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Simple oval/lance-shapedrecorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Putkanda itself; the rest are typical of the Amaranthaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower arrangement
- Spike (stalkless flowers along a stem)recorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Putkanda itself; the rest are typical of the Amaranthaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Putkanda
- Nepali
- दतिवन् datiwan, रातो अपमार्ग ratoapamarga
- Tamil
- நாயுருவி nayuruvi
- Kannada
- kaadu uttharaani
- Malayalam
- പെരുംകടലാടി perumkadalaadi, പെരുംകടലാടി
- Marathi
- आघाडा AghaDa
About Putkanda
Ox Knee (Achyranthes bidentata) belongs to the Amaranthaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and 10 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Amaranthaceae
Amaranth family
Putkanda belongs to the Amaranthaceae family.
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