Distribution and habitat:  Found throughout India.

Botany:  An erect, woody, very variable annual or perennial undershurb about 1.5 m high with strong wiry flexuose branches with stellate hairs. 

• Leaves   : Short petioled, rhomboid – lanceolate to lanceolate, serrated towards the top.
• Flowers: Yellow or white, axilllary, solitary or in pairs.
• Leaves : Reduced on the flowering branches.
• Fruits: Depressed, globose, schizocarp, enclosed within the calyx, separating in to one seeded indehiscent unit.
• Seeds : Black, smooth.

Uses: Used against tuberculosis, burning sensation, dipsia, leucorrhoea, strangury, febrifuge and dermatopathy. 

Propagation: Seeds.