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am-uh-RANTH-us -- everlasting flower ... Dave's Botanary
spy-NO-sus -- with spines ... Dave's Botanary

commonly known as: edlebur, needle burr, prickly amaranth, spiny amaranth, thorny amaranth, thorny pigweed • Bengali: kantanotya • Gujarathi: kantanu-dant • Hindi: कांटा चौलाई kanta chaulai • Kannada: ದಮ್ಟಿನ ಸೋಪ್ಪು dantina soppu • Malayalam: kattumullenkeera • Manipuri: চেংগ্ক্রুক chengkruk • Marathi: कांटेभाजी kante bhaji, कांटेमाठ kante math • Sanskrit: tanduliuyah • Tamil: முள்ளுக்கீரை mullukkeerai • Telugu: ముళ్లతోటకూర mullatotakura

Naturalized: widely naturalized weed of tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions

Erect or spreading herb up to 1 m tall, obtusely angled, much branched, often tinged purple; leaves ovate-rhombic to ovate-lanceolate, up to 12 cm long, glabrous or hairy along veins, apex obtuse with a mucro, leaf base with 1 or 2 axillary spines; flowers in clusters, lower cluster axillary, upper forming terminal or axillary spikes; lower clusters and lower part of spike with female flowers, upper part of spike with male flowers; lower bracts often spiny; tepals green, usually 5, mucronate; stigmas 2-3; utricle included in perianth. 

Vof Week: Amaranthus spinosus from Pipalkoti: Amaranthus spinosus L from Pipalkoti (in way to joshimath)

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Does not look like A. spinosus. Could you blow up stem showing any spines.

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Sir here are closeup

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Yes Thanks ...

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Hooghly Today : Amaranthus spinosus Linnaeus :Don't know how Amarantus in "Bengal Plants" became Amaranthus these days but this is surely Amaranthus spinosus Linnaeus, or KANTA-NOTEY (কাঁটা নোটে) (KANTA NUTIA in Bengal Plants), a very common herb on roadside and wasteplace.

ID Help :

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This thorny Amaranthus is not very common near our area in Pune as against the more common weed Amaranthus viridis.

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It is very very common here, ..., found in everywhere, yet to see Amaranthus viridis, ....maybe there are many, didn't notice carefully.

Herb ID request - RK93 - 13-Jan-2013: Requesting identification of this spiny herb from Tungareshwer. It is growing in the stony soil and would be around 3 feet tall. It is flowering now and photos of the flower spike, leaves and spines are attached

This is Amaranthus spinosus L., a common herb on roadside.

ID Help and more pictures - https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/Q6aScF2Z39k/discussion.

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Yes ..., very distinctive species.

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Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week: :: KD 01 :: Amaranthus spinosus L from Kamrup district, Assam: Attached images are Amaranthus spinosus L. collected from Kamrup district, Assam

Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week :: DV10 :: 15 AUG 09 11:37:23 :: Amaranthus spinosus along NH 8 near Chinchoti:  

Amaranthus spinosus L. 

am-uh-RANTH-us -- everlasting flower ... Dave's Botanary
spy-NO-sus -- with spines ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: edlebur, needle burr, prickly amaranth, spiny amaranth, thorny amaranth, thorny pigweed • Bengali: kantanotya • Gujarathi: kantanu-dant • Hindi: कांटा चौलाई kanta chaulai • Kannada: ದಮ್ಟಿನ ಸೋಪ್ಪು dantina soppu • Malayalam: kattumullenkeera • Manipuri: চেংগ্ক্রুক chengkruk • Marathi: कांटेभाजी kante bhaji, कांटेमाठ kante math • Sanskrit: tanduliuyah • Tamil: முள்ளுக்கீரை mullukkeerai • Telugu: ముళ్లతోటకూర mullatotakura
Naturalized: widely naturalized weed of tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions
Reference: Flowers of India • PIER • NPGS / GRIN • Common Indian Wild Flowers by Isaac Kehimkar  

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Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week :BRS 008 Amaranthus spinosus from Chennai:  

Sharing the images of Amaranthus spinosus from Chennai.

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Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week: BS06: Amaranthus spinosus L from Panipat Haryana: Amaranthus spinosus L from Panipat Haryana

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Chenopodiaceae and Amaranthaceae Week: Amaranthus spinosus L from Mandi..GS-27:  Amaranthus spinosus L., Sp. Pl. 2: 991. 1753.

Nepali Names : काँडे लुँडे Kaande Lunde / बन्दनी Bandanee / बन लुँडे Ban Lunde 

 

 

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