About Madras Carpet
Grangea maderaspatana, commonly known as Madras carpet, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Grangea maderaspatana
- Genus
- Grangea
- Family
- ASTERACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- In moist places
- Native to
- Africa
- Distribution
- Africa, Sri Lanka, India through to Nepal, China, Indo-China, Malaysia
- Flowering & fruiting
- September-July
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
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

Botanical family
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Madras Carpet belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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