Mullu Honagonne / Khaki Weed
Alternanthera pungens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Alternanthera pungens
- Genus
- Alternanthera
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- America, a wide-spread weed in Tropics and subtropics
- Distribution
- Tropics & sub-tropics of the World
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Simple oval/lance-shaped, smallrecorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mullu Honagonne itself; the rest are typical of the Amaranthaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded“Clusters of small white flowers form in the .” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mullu Honagonne itself; the rest are typical of the Amaranthaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Kannada
- ಮುಳ್ಳುಹೊನಗೊನ್ನೆ Mullu honagonne
About Mullu Honagonne
Khaki Weed (Alternanthera pungens) belongs to the Amaranthaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and 9 other states. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Amaranthaceae
Amaranth family
Mullu Honagonne belongs to the Amaranthaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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