- Family : AMARANTHACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Amaranthaceae
- Species : Alternanthera pungens
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Alternanthera pungens Kunth
- Common name : Khaki Weed
- Vernacular name : Mullu honagonne (Kan.), Kante vali santi (Hin.)
- Collection Nos : CJS 10819
- Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
- Key identification features : A spreading herb with opposite, simple, stalked, entire, spathulate leaves. Flowers are small, inconspicuous and aggregated into a head-like inflorescence. Bracts, bracteoles as well as the floral lobes are membranous and are pointed.
- Habit : Herb
- Native : Neotropics
- Comments : A common introduced weed
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Collection Locality : Channarayapatna (Hassan)
- Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
- Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Saldanha, 1984; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg
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