Mukhtari / Madras Carpet
Grangea maderaspatana
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- September-July
How to identify Mukhtari
Identify Mukhtari 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.
- Confirm leaf surface: Pubescent (softly hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: September-July.
- In India, compare location records such as Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Mukhtari.
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.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Mukhtari belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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