Bugyale / Oldman’S Cap
Polycarpaea corymbosa
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- August-February
How to identify Bugyale
Identify Bugyale 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.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Flat-topped flower clusters.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-February.
- In India, compare location records such as Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Caryophyllaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Bugyale.
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.
Caryophyllaceae
Pink Family
Bugyale belongs to the Caryophyllaceae family.
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