| |
Blumea membranacea var. gracilis
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
|
| |
Citation: Blumea membranacea Wall. ex DC. var. gracilis Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 265. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 687(483). 1921; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 244. 1988; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 462. 2009.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Herbs; stem and leaves pubescent or villous. Leaves alternate, obovate or oblanceolate, coarsely toothed, the upper small, minutely pubescent; lower runcinate lyrate or subpinnatifid. Heads quite small, in racemose panicles. Involucre campanulate; bracts many-seriate, narrow, herbaceous or soft, the outer smaller. Corolla of male and female yellow. Corolla of female flowers filiform, minutely 2-3 toothed; of male flowers tubular, slender, with a slightly enlarged 5-lobed limb. Receptacle glabrous. Anther-bases sagittate with small slender tails. Style-arms of female slender, of male flattened, papillose. Achenes small, ribbed; pappus 1-seriate, the hairs slender, caducous.
|
| |
Habit:
Herb
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
January-April
|
| |
District(s):
Kannur, Wayanad
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Deciduous forests
|
| |
Distribution:
South India
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
Yellow
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
South India
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
Brahmagiri, Ambayathode, Periya
|