Gandhi Buti / Hairy Carpet Weed
Glinus lotoides
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- January-August
How to identify Gandhi Buti
Identify Gandhi Buti 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: Densely hairy foliage.
- Confirm leaf arrangement: Whorled.
- Confirm leaf shape: Spoon-shaped.
- Confirm fruit type: Capsule.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: January-August.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and nearby regions.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Glinus lotoides
- Genus
- Glinus
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Riverside, along streams, also in deciduous forests
- Native to
- India
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka and wide spread in tropics
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Telangana, West Bengal
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-August
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf arrangement
- WhorledrecordedThree or more leaves arise from the same point around the stem.“The oval or spade-shaped leaves are located in whorls about the stem.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Leaf shape
- Spoon-shapedrecorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gandhi Buti itself; the rest are typical of the Aizoaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit type
- CapsulerecordedA dry fruit from a fused ovary that splits open at maturity to release seeds.“The fruit is an oval capsule about four millimeters long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gandhi Buti itself; the rest are typical of the Aizoaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- गंधी बूटी gandhi buti
- Bengali
- আলুঘাস alughasa, দশেরা শাক dasera saka, আলুঘাস | দশেরা শাক
- Tamil
- செருப்படை ceruppatai, கிளினசு லோடோய்டேசு
- Kannada
- ಚಂದ್ರ ಕಾಸಿ ಸೊಪ್ಪು chandra kaasi soppu, ಕಾಗ ಪುರಳೆ ಗಿಡ kaaga purale gida
- Marathi
- कडवी भाजी kadvi bhaji
About Gandhi Buti
Hairy Carpet Weed (Glinus lotoides) belongs to the Aizoaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and 13 other states. It grows in riverside, along streams, also in deciduous forests. Flowering and fruiting run from January to August.
Aizoaceae
Carpet-Weed Family
Gandhi Buti belongs to the Aizoaceae family.
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