Triumfetta rhomboidea Jacq.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Equisetopsida > Malvales > Malvaceae > Triumfetta > T. rhomboidea

Description: Erect, much-branched undershrubs; stem hairy, stellate hairs mixed with simple hairs. Leaves 2.5-7 x 2.5-6 cm, generally rhomboid-ovate, base rounded or cordate, margins irregularly serrate, apex acute or acuminate, stellate-pubescent to glabrescent; basal ones palmately 3-lobed; petioles up to 4 cm long; stipules 3-4 mm long, subulate. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed cymes, 5-6 mm across, shortly pedicellate. Sepals 4-5 mm long, lanceolate, hairy without. Petals yellow, 4-5 mm long, oblong-obovate. Stamens 8-15. Ovary c. 1.5 mm long, ovoid, setose. Capsules 4-5 mm across, subglobose, stellate hairy outside, setose; setae c. 2 mm long, hooked at tip.

Flowering and Fruiting: August-January

Uses: Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha

Cultivation: Cultivated, Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org