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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH456 : Blumea axillaris (Lam.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Blumea
Species : Blumea axillaris (Lam.) DC.
Plant Location in Melghat : Degraded deciduous forests and grasslands  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Asteraceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Blumea arenaria var. honigbergeri (Rech.f.) Parsa
Blumea honigbergeri Rech.f.
Blumea perrottetiana DC.
Blumea solidaginoides (Poir.) DC.
Blumea solidagoides (Poir.) DC.
Conyza axillaris Hornm. ex Lam.
Conyza lacera var. bifoliolata Wall. ex Miq.
Gnaphalium solidaginoides Poir.
Description : Herbs, annual or biennial, erect, 5-120 cm tall, with a taproot. Stems terete, softly pilose with spreading hairs and glands, viscid-tomentose particularly on younger parts and on synflorescence axes. Leaves ovate-oblong, 9-11 × 3.5-4 cm, papery, densely silky-villous on both surfaces with soft multicellular hairs and glands, base attenuate, margin closely doubly serrate, apex obtuse to apiculate; veins 5-7 pairs. Capitula in terminal, narrow, compact, spiciform panicle, subsessile to pedunculate. Involucre campanulate; phyllaries in 3 or 4 series, outer ones shorter, linear-lanceolate, 3-4 × 0.6-0.8 mm, densely softly villous and with multicellular hairs and glands, inner linear, 5-6 × 0.2-0.3 mm, margins scarious, ciliate. Marginal florets 3.5-4.5 mm, 2- or 3-lobed, glandular. Central florets pinkish purple apically, whitish or yellowish at base, 3.5-4.5 mm, with 5 triangular lobes, lobes pubescent and with sessile glands. Receptacle convex, 1.8-2 mm in diam., alveolate, glabrous. Achenes oblong, ca. 0.8 × 0.2-0.3 mm, pubescent. Pappus white, 3-4 mm. Fl. year-round. 2n = 18, 36.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :