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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH125 : Laggera aurita (L.f.) C.B. Clarke

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 265  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae
Genus : Laggera
Species : Laggera aurita
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


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 :