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Anaphalis meeboldii
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Anaphalis meeboldii W. W. Smith, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. 4: 284. 1911; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 696(490). 1921; P.C. Pant in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 69. 1995; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 37. 1998.
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Description:
Tufted, compact herb; branchlets woolly, ascending, striate; tender parts densely white cottony, interspersed with long pilose hairs. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, to 1.8 x 0.3 cm, 1-nerved, base decurrent, margin reflexed, apex acuminate, woolly and ascending when young, glabrescent and deflexed with age. Corymbs terminal, to 2 cm wide, rounded, heterogamous, disciform. Capitulum 5.5 mm wide, yellow. Involucre 4-or 5-seriate. Phyllaries oblong-spathulate, to 3.5 x 1 mm, imbricate, thickened below, scarious above, whitish. Receptacle naked. Pappus 1.5 mm. Pistillate florets 7-18. Corolla yellow, 2.2. mm, 4-lobed. Style 2.3 mm. Bisexual florets 17-25. Corolla 2.4 mm, 4-or 5-lobed. Stamens 1.6 mm. Style 2.2 mm.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
2050-2600
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