| Minute Amaranth |
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| Original date | 5/18/15 7:09 AM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 29.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3300 |
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Botanical name: Nothosaerva brachiata Family: Amaranthaceae (Amaranth family)
Synonyms: Amaranthus minutus, Achyranthes brachiata
Synonyms: Amaranthus minutus, Achyranthes brachiata
Minute Amaranth is an annual herb 10-45 cm high,
mostly branching from the base. Leaves are opposite or alternate,
elliptic-oblong or ovate, 1-5 cm long for basal leaves, becoming
shorter and narrower further up, thinly hairy to more or less hairless,
more or less gradually tapering into a leaf-stalk up to about half the
length of the leaf blade. Flowers are borne in small, dense spikes,
3-15 mm long, clustered in the leaf axils or on short in leaf-axils
shoots. Bracts are whitish, hyaline, up to half a mm long. Flowers have
ovate-elliptic tepals about 1.25 mm long, greenish-white, woolly on the
outside. Capsule is included in the persistent flower and falling
together. Minute Amaranth is native to India, Sri Lanka, Southeast
Asia, and eastern Africa. Flowering: November-January.
Medicinal uses:
Used in Ayurveda for treatment
of skin disease, stomach ache, astringent and antiseptic.
Medicinal uses:
Used in Ayurveda for treatment
of skin disease, stomach ache, astringent and antiseptic. | Identification credit: S. Kasim | Photographed in Trichirapally, Tamil Nadu. |
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