''Acanthus carduaceus'' is a species of flowering plant in the genus of ''
Acanthus''. It is native to
Eastern Himalayas and exists as a shrub. It is also found in limited parts of Bengal and Assam.
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
A raceme () or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the shoo ...
as
inflorescences. The white flowers are tubular, with a heteromorphic calyx and a 5-lobed corolla.
References
carduaceus
Plants described in 1854
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