✿Asteraceae · Grangea
Mukhtari / Madras Carpet
Grangea maderaspatana
HerboutdoorMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- September-July
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Grangea maderaspatana
- Genus
- Grangea
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- In moist places
- Habitat type
- Wetland
- Native to
- Africa
- Distribution
- Africa, Sri Lanka, India through to Nepal, China, Indo-China, Malaysia
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana, Rajasthan, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-July
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Pubescent (softly hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mukhtari itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“The solitary flower heads are 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) in diameter, with yellow florets.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- AchenerecordedA small, dry, single-seeded fruit that does not split open.“The achenes are compressed and narrowly winged.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mukhtari itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- मुखतरी mukhtari, मुस्तरू mustaru, নামুতি
- Nepali
- गोब्रे झार gobre jhaar, माक्सी-पर्ण maaksee-parn
- Bengali
- হলদে ঘাস holde ghas, নামুতি namuti, পাদান padan
- Tamil
- மாசிபத்திரி maci-pattiri
- Kannada
- ದವನ davana, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗಾದಾರಿ dodda gaadaari, ಗ್ರಂಥಪರ್ಣಿ granthaparni
- Malayalam
- നിലന്പാല nilampala, തുമ്മൽച്ചെടി
- Marathi
- माचीपत्री machipatri
About Mukhtari
A member of the Asteraceae family, Madras Carpet (Grangea maderaspatana) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and 20 other states. It grows in in moist places. Flowering and fruiting run from September to July.
Botanical family
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Mukhtari belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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