Triumfetta rhomboidea
Jacq., Enum. Syst. Pl. 22. 1760; Masters in Fl. Brit. India
1: 395. 1874. T. bartramia L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1044. 1759, nom. illeg. Bartramia indica.
L., Sp. Pl. 378. 1753, non Triumfetta indica Lam. 1792. T. angulata Lam., Encycl. 3: 421.1792; Wight & Arn., Prodr. 74. 1834. T. trilocularis Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 462. 1832. T.
tungarensis Billore in J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3: 621. 1982.
Asm.: Akra; Beng.: Ban-okra; Guj.: Thipato; Hindi: Chikti, Chiriyari; Kan.: Kadubende; Kh.: Soh-byr-thit; Mar.: Thinjhira; Nep.: Bolnghas; Or.: Bojoromulu, Jotojit;
Sans.: Thinjiharita; Tam.: Ottarai, Ottupullu, Paramutti; Tel.: Ciruccitrika, Tatturubenda.
Herbs or undershrubs, erect, much-branched, 0.5 - 1 m (or more) high, pubescent. Leaves 3 - 9.5 x 2.5 - 8 cm, generally rhomboid-ovate, palmately 3-lobed or entire, rounded to cuneate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, irregularly serrate, stellate- pubescent to glabrescent, 3 - 7-nerved; petioles up to 5 cm long, pubescent; stipules 3 - 4 mm long, subulate, pubescent. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed cymes, shortly pedicellate, 5 - 6 mm across; buds oblong, club-shaped. Sepals ca 5 mm long, oblong, apiculate, hairy. Petals yellow, equal to or a little shorter than sepals, oblong-obovate, hairy at base. Stamens 8 - 15. Carpels 2 - 3; ovary subglobose,. hairy, 2 - 3-loculed; style subulate; stigma 2 - 3-lobed. Capsules 3.5 - 4 mm across, globose or subglobose, albido-tomentose; spines 1.5 - 2 mm long, uncinate, glabrous.
Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Jan.
Distrib. India: Throughout.
Pantropical.
Notes. M. Almeida (J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 12: 498. 1988) and Koshy (Ibid. 12: 400. 1988) independently reduced T. tungarensis Billore to a synonym of T. rhomboidea Jacq.
Herbs or undershrubs, erect, much-branched, 0.5 - 1 m (or more) high, pubescent. Leaves 3 - 9.5 x 2.5 - 8 cm, generally rhomboid-ovate, palmately 3-lobed or entire, rounded to cuneate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, irregularly serrate, stellate- pubescent to glabrescent, 3 - 7-nerved; petioles up to 5 cm long, pubescent; stipules 3 - 4 mm long, subulate, pubescent. Flowers in terminal or leaf-opposed cymes, shortly pedicellate, 5 - 6 mm across; buds oblong, club-shaped. Sepals ca 5 mm long, oblong, apiculate, hairy. Petals yellow, equal to or a little shorter than sepals, oblong-obovate, hairy at base. Stamens 8 - 15. Carpels 2 - 3; ovary subglobose,. hairy, 2 - 3-loculed; style subulate; stigma 2 - 3-lobed. Capsules 3.5 - 4 mm across, globose or subglobose, albido-tomentose; spines 1.5 - 2 mm long, uncinate, glabrous.
Fl. & Fr. Aug. - Jan.
Distrib. India: Throughout.
Pantropical.
Notes. M. Almeida (J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 12: 498. 1988) and Koshy (Ibid. 12: 400. 1988) independently reduced T. tungarensis Billore to a synonym of T. rhomboidea Jacq.
