✿Caryophyllaceae · Polycarpaea
Bugyale / Oldman’S Cap
Polycarpaea corymbosa
HerboutdoorMedicinal
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- August-February
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Polycarpaea corymbosa
- Genus
- Polycarpaea
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Scrub jungles and agricultural fields
- Habitat type
- Scrub
- Distribution
- Pantropical
- Found in India
- Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Assam, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-February
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
Characters marked “recorded” are for Bugyale itself; the rest are typical of the Caryophyllaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Bugyale
- Tamil
- Nilaisedachi, Cataicciver, Pallippuntu
- Telugu
- Bommasari, Rajuma
- Kannada
- paade mullu gida, poude mullu, poude mullu gida
- Malayalam
- Katu-mailosina, അക്കരംകൊല്ലി
- Marathi
- Koyap, Maitosin
About Bugyale
Oldman’s Cap (Polycarpaea corymbosa) is a herb in the Caryophyllaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and 12 other states. It grows in scrub jungles and agricultural fields. Flowering and fruiting run from August to February.
Botanical family
Caryophyllaceae
Pink Family
Bugyale belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family.
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