English: Prostrate pastureweed.
Name: cyathula means small cup.
Hindi: laal chirchita.
Kannada: nela uttharaani, Raktapamarga.
Malayalam: Cerukadalaadi.
Marathi: Bhuiaghādā.
Tamil: Civappu nayuruvi.
Use: medicinal; for food and soap.
Ecology: larval host plant of Fulvous Pied Flat butterfly.
BotanyHerb; perennial; prostrate.
Leaves: opposite, rhomboid, acute at both ends, thinly pubescent; petiolate.
Inflorescence: spike terminal, slender, solitary or in group of three.
Flowers: groups of 3-5 of which, one perfect and others neutor; bracts and bracteoles similar, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; tepals 5, free, elliptic, acute, hooked awn like in neutor flowers.
Androecium: Stamens 5, filaments united into a membranous truncate cup; staminodes membranous, alternate with stamens, fimbriate.
Gynoecium: ovary ovoid, style simple, stigma capitellate.
Fruits: achenes, obovoid, compressed, golden brown.
Flowering: September-April.