MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH125 : Laggera aurita (L.f.) C.B. Clarke |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 265 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Mostly in and around villages on moist, shaded sports | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Asteraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sticky Blumea, clammy false oxtongue | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pseudoconyza viscosa (Mill.) Blumea viscosa (Mill.) V.M.Badillo Blumea aurita (L.f.) DC. Blumea lyrata (Kunth) Badillo Conyza aurita L.f. Conyza lyrata Kunth Conyza viscosa Mill. Pseudoconyza lyrata (Kunth) Cuatrec. Pseudoconyza viscosa var. lyrata (Kunth) D’Arcy |
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| Description : | Erect perennial 30-60 cm tall, aromatic (smell of turpentine), branched herbs. Stem usually not winged. Leaves ovate to obovate, 2-12 x 1-5 (-6) cm, lyrately or pinnately lobed, with a cuneate or narrow base or sometimes lobed to the base; lobes decurrent, 6-8 x 4-5 mm. Capitula 7-9 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3-6 (-7) mm, outer lanceoalate, inner linear, glandular. Florets purple, 4-6 mm long. Cypselas dark red-brown, c. 1 mm obscurely ribbed, sparsely hairy, pappus white, 4-4.5 mm long. Fl.Per.: March-June. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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