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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH463 : Cosmos bipinnatus Cav.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Cosmos Cav. - cosmos
Species : Cosmos bipinnatus Cav. - garden cosmos
Plant Location in Melghat : Moist soils  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : Cosmos Pink, Cosmos White, Cosmos Pied Piper Red
 
Synonym : Bidens bipinnata Baill.
Bidens diversifolia (Otto ex Knowles & Westc.) Sch.Bip.
Bidens formosa (Bonato) Sch.Bip.
Bidens lindleyi Sch.Bip.
Coreopsis formosa Bonato
Cosmea bipinnata (Cav.) Willd.
Cosmea diversifolia Hort. ex Heynh.
Cosmea tenifolia (Lindl.) Lindl. ex Heynhold
Cosmea tenuifolia (Lindl.) J.W.Loudon
Cosmos bipinnatus var. albiflorus Sprenger
Cosmos bipinnatus var. bipinnatus
Cosmos bipinnatus var. exaristatus DC.
Cosmos bipinnatus var. typicus Sherff
Cosmos diversifolius Otto ex Otto
Cosmos diversifolius var. pumilus Sherff
Cosmos diversifolius var. typicus Sherff
Cosmos formosa Bonato
Cosmos hybridus Auct.
Cosmos reptans Benth.
Cosmos spectabilis Auct.
Cosmos spectabilis var. alba Carr.
Cosmos spectabilis var. rosea Carr.
Cosmos tenuifolia Lindl.
Cosmos tenuifolius Lindl.
Dahlia repens Hartw. ex Benth.
Dahlia zimapani Roezl ex Ortgies
Georgia bipinnata (Cav.) Spreng.
Description : Annual herbs, up to 3 m tall; stems slender, angulate, nodes more or less cupulate, all parts glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, bipinnately dissected; lamina ca. 2.5-11 x 2-12 cm, lobes linear-lanceolate, elliptic or filiform, acute at apex, margin entire. Capitulum solitary or terminal, di- or trichotomously branched, peduncles ca. 2-7.5 cm across; involucral bracts uniseriate, subulate, ligulate or lanceolate, acute-acuminate; flowers white, pink or red; corolla lobes truncate or dentate. Achenes ca. 1-1.5 cm long, glabrescent, linear, ribbed, with an abrupt beak; pappus 4, retrorsely barbed.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : used in a traditional herbal remedy for various diseases such as jaundice, intermittent fever, and splenomegaly
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
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 :