Oont Kanteli / Indian Globe Thistle
Echinops echinatus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- September-March
How to identify Oont Kanteli
Identify Oont Kanteli by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Spherical spiny blue globe-shaped flower head.
- Confirm leaf shape: Oblong.
- Confirm leaf surface: Hirsute (coarsely hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Blue.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: September-March.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Echinops echinatus
- Genus
- Echinops
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Open forests
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Native to
- Afghanistan
- Distribution
- India, Afghanistan, Pakistan
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-March
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OblongrecordedLonger than wide with roughly parallel sides, the ends rounded.“Alternately arranged oblong, deeply pinnatifid leaves are 7–12 cm long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Oont Kanteli itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Bluerecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“Flower heads occur in solitary white spherical balls, 3–5 cm across.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Oont Kanteli itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Utakatira, ऊँट कंटेली Oont kanteli, Gokhru
- Bengali
- ঠাকুরকাঁটা
- Telugu
- Brahmadandi
- Kannada
- ಬ್ರಹ್ಮದಂಡಿ Brahmadandi, ಬ್ರಹ್ಮದಂಡೆ Brahmadande, ಕಂಟಾಳ Kantaala
- Marathi
- Utkatar, Kate-chendu, काटेचेंडू
- Gujarati
- ઉત્કંટો
About Oont Kanteli
Indian Globe Thistle (Echinops echinatus) is a herb in the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and 13 other states. It grows in open forests. Flowering and fruiting run from September to March.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Oont Kanteli belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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