✿Aizoaceae · Mollugo
Carpet Weed
Mollugo pentaphylla
HerboutdoorMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Mollugo pentaphylla
- Genus
- Mollugo
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Moist localities
- Native to
- Old World tropics
- Distribution
- Tropics & sub-tropics of the World
- Found in India
- Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Spoon-shapedrecorded
Typical of the family
Characters marked “recorded” are for Carpet Weed itself; the rest are typical of the Aizoaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Capsule
Typical of the Aizoaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
Local Names
- Bengali
- খেত পাপরা
About Carpet Weed
A member of the Aizoaceae family, Carpet Weed (Mollugo pentaphylla) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and 7 other states. It grows in moist localities. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Aizoaceae
Carpet-Weed Family
Carpet Weed belongs to the Aizoaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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