Fagopyrum esculentum Moench

 
  • Family : POLYGONACEAE
    (Buckwheat Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Polygonum fagopyrum L.; Fagopyrum cereale Raf.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Fagopyrum esculentum Moench
  • Common name : Buckwheat, Common buckwheat
  • Vernacular name :
    • Kutu (Oria)
    • Kotu, Kuktu, Phaphra (Hindi)
    • Kaadu godhi (Malayalam)
    • Wakha Yendem (Manipuri)
    • Phapar (Nepali)
    • Harenhan (Tangkhul)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Cultivated
  • Comments / notes : Cultivated for the fruit; found often as escape
  • Key identification features : Glabrous herbs; erect, up to 1 m tall; stem and branches often with 2- 3 pubescent ridges; Leaves triangular, cordate or hastate, glaucous; stipules usually less than 1 cm long; Flowers in axillary or terminal, peduncled cymose clusters, pink or whitish pink; Nuts trigonous, ovate; Perianth pinkish-white, anthers green
  • Flower, Fruit : December-February
  • Distribution :
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Subansiri, Tirap
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Native : China, Tibet
  • Exotic/Native : Exotic
  • World Distribution : India, Himalayas, Europe, North Asia
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
    • Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 347
    • Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 2. Published BSI: 609
    • Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 240
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 310
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Fagopyrum esculentum. Downloaded on 4 December 2024.

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