MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH459 : Blumea sinuata (Lour.) Merr. |
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| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Gnaphalium sinuatum Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. Blumea glandulosa Bentham Blumea laciniata Candolle Blumea okinawensis Hayata Blumea onnaensis Hayata. |
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| Description : | Herbs, annual or biennial, erect, 0.5-1.5 m tall. Stems striate, often branched from base, pilose with multicellular hairs and stipitate glands; branches sometimes ascending. Leaves membranous, 12-20 × 6-8 cm, pilose on both surfaces, base attenuate into petiole, margin often runcinate-lyrate and distantly dentate, teeth apiculate, apex obtuse; veins 8-10 pairs. Capitula numerous in terminal, dense to lax panicles, pedunculate; peduncles villous, glandular. Phyllaries in 2 or 3 series, outer ones shorter, linear-lanceolate, 2-3 × ca. 0.6 mm, villous on outer surface, inner longer, linear, 7-8 × ca. 0.6 mm, margins ciliate. Receptacle convex, 3-4 mm in diam., alveolate, pilose around alveolae or sometimes glabrous. Marginal florets ca. 7 mm, 3-5-lobed, glabrous. Central florets yellow, 7-8 mm, with 5 broadly triangular lobes, lobes with sessile glands and remote multicellular hairs. Achenes brown, oblong, ca. 1 × 0.3 mm, 10-ribbed, sparsely hirsute. Pappus white, 3-4 mm. Fl. Oct-May. 2n = 18. | |||||||||||||
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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
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