Sarpagandha (Indian Snakeroot / Serpentine Wood)
Rauvolfia serpentina
Erect glabrous perennial undershrub with pale bark; whorls of 3-4 elliptic-lanceolate m...
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Screw Pine (Kewra / Ketaki)
Pandanus odorifer
Branching dioecious small tree supported by stout aerial stilt roots; long linear spiny...
Sea Holly (Harakancha / Harakusa)
Acanthus ilicifolius
Spiny shrub of coastal mangroves and estuaries; opposite stiff spine-tipped serrate hol...
Sessile Joyweed (Gudrisag / Matsyaksi)
Alternanthera sessilis
Prostrate or ascending branched creeping herb rooting at nodes; opposite oblanceolate-e...
Shalaparni (Tick Trefoil)
Desmodium gangeticum
Erect woody subshrub to 1.5m with angular stems; simple oblong-ovate leaves with wavy m...
Shatavari (Wild Asparagus)
Asparagus racemosus
Climbing spinous woody shrub with tuberous roots; needle-like cladodes in clusters, fra...
Siam Weed (Christmas Bush / Tivragandha)
Chromolaena odorata
Erect vigorously scrambling perennial subshrub; triangular-ovate coarsely serrate oppos...
Sickle Senna (Chakramarda / Foetid Cassia)
Senna tora
Erect foetid annual weed up to 1m; pinnate leaves with 3 pairs of obovate-cuneate leafl...
Silver Date Palm (Khajoor / Kharjura)
Phoenix sylvestris
Tall robust wild date palm up to 15m; solitary trunk covered with persistent rhomboid l...
Siris Tree (Lebbeck Tree / Shirisha)
Albizia lebbeck
Large deciduous umbrella-shaped tree with smooth greyish bark; bipinnate foliage with o...