Croton glandulosus var. hirtus (Introduced)

Croton glandulosus var. hirtus (L’Hér.) Müll.Arg., Prodr. 15(2): 684 1866. (syn: Brachystachys hirta (L’Hér.) Klotzsch; Croton aberrans Müll.Arg.; Croton glandulosus subsp. hirtus (L’Hér.) Croizat; Croton glandulosus var. martii Müll.Arg.; Croton glandulosus var. subincanus Müll.Arg.; Croton guaraniticus Chodat & Hassl. ….; Croton hirtus L’Hér.; Oxydectes aberrans (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; Oxydectes glandulosa var. hirta (L’Hér.) Kuntze; Podostachys hirta (L’Hér.) Klotzsch);

Argentina Northeast; Argentina Northwest; Belize; Benin; Bolivia; Borneo; Brazil North; Brazil Northeast; Brazil South; Brazil Southeast; Brazil West-Central; Burkina; Chagos Archipelago; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Honduras; India; Ivory Coast; Jamaica; Jawa; Leeward Is.; Liberia; Malaya; Mexico Central; Mexico Gulf; Mexico Northwest; Mexico Southeast; Mexico Southwest; New Guinea; Nicaragua; Paraguay; Peru; Sierra Leone; Sumatera; Suriname; Tanzania; Thailand; Trinidad-Tobago; Venezuela; Windward Is.; Zare as per Catalogue of Life (Croton hirtus L’Hér.);

Common name: Hairy Croton

Erect dichotomously branched aromatic herbs upto 60 cm high; branchlets with white to pale yellow strigose-stellate hairs. Leaves 2.4-9 x 1.5-7.8 cm, ovate to ovate-oblong, base truncate, broadly cuneate or oblique, margins irregularly serrate, apex acute, stellate white hairy on both sides, 3-5-nerved from base, 2-stalked gland present at the base of lamina; petiole 0.3-6.5 cm long, stellate hairy; stipules 2-5 mm long, linear, stellate hairy. Inflorescence terminal, upto 4 cm long with multibranched numerous glandular hairs, female flowers below, male flowers above; bracts 2-4 mm long, linear, glandular hairy. Male flowers white; pedicels c. 1 mm long, stellate hairy; tepals 10, 2-seriate, white, 1.5-2 x 0.5-1 mm, obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute at apex, stellate hairy without. Stamens many. Female flowers green; tepals 5; longer ones 3, c. 3 mm long, obovate; shorter ones 2, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary c. 1.5 mm long, ovoid, stellate hairy. Capsules 3-5 x 3-4 mm, ovoid, stellate hairy. Seeds 2-3 mm long, trigonous, brown with black patches, caruncle cream.

Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year

Wastelands

West Indies, Central and South America and Tropical Asia

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)

ID of Palakkad 25-June-14 : 4 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (1).

Palakkad June 14.

Plant about one foot. Growing wild in urban areas.
Leafs have aromatic smell.

Heliotropium?

Croton hirtus

Yes, Croron glandulosus var. hirtus.

Request to identify the plant : 13 posts by 7 authors. Attachments (3)- around 900 kb each.

Location: Thevara , Kerala
Date:1 July 2019
Elevation:22.97 feet

Seems to Acalypha sp.

Euphorbiaceae,

http://keralaplants.in/search-flowering-plants-of-kerala.aspx

Can it be Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg. ?

Yes, this is Acalypha malabarica Muell.-Arg.

Looks like Croton hirtus

A close up of Infl. would facilitate correct ID

Thanks, …, for the id.

I also agree with you as per images, details and references at Croton glandulosus var. hirtus

Yes, it is correct. Another South American herb, Astraea lobata is silently creeping into India.

I agree with … Yes, it is Croton glandulosus var hirtus (L’Herit) Muell.Arg.

came with wheat in the seventies? or sixties????

Croton glandulosus var hirtus (L’Herit) Muell.Arg. SN31020 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)- around 900 kb each.
Invaded weed Croton glandulosus var hirtus (L’Herit) Muell. Arg in the roadside Nellikuppam, (Guduvanchery) near Chennai

757 ID wild plant: 13 images.
Please ID wild plant,