Acanthus carduaceus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Acanthus |
| Species: | A. carduaceus
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| Binomial name | |
| Acanthus carduaceus Griff.
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Acanthus carduaceus is a species of flowering plant in the genus of Acanthus. It is native to Eastern Himalayas and exists as a shrub.[1] It is also found in limited parts of Bengal and Assam.[2][3]
Description
Acanthus carduaceus is a robust, scandent shrub, reaching up to 2.5 m in height. It features large pinnatifid leaves with spinous lobes and compact terminal racemes as inflorescences. The white flowers are tubular, with a heteromorphic calyx and a 5-lobed corolla.[4]
References
- ^ "Acanthus carduaceus Griff". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-12-05.
- ^ Hunter, Sir William Wilson (1877). A Statistical Account of Bengal. p. 169.
- ^ Applied Botany Abstracts. Economic Botany Information Service, National Botanical Research Institute. 1982. p. 76.
Acanthus carduaceus Griffith -- A Scarcely Known Endemic Plant from West Bengal.
- ^ Sikdar, J. K.; Maiti, G. G. (1981). "Acanthus carduaceus a Scarcely Known Endemic Plant from West Bengal India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 78 (3): 635–637.