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Senecio multiceps
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Senecio multiceps Balakr., Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 67: 57. 1970; R. Mathur in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 272. 1995.
Madaractis polycephala DC., Prodr. 6: 440. 1838.
Senecio polycephalus (DC.) Clarke, Comp. Ind. 197. 1876; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 344. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 722(507). 1921, non Ledeb.1830.
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Description:
Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous, glandular hispid; stems creeping, 25-45 cm high, corymbosely branched from the base or below the inflorescence. Leaves obovate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, margins thick, crenate, 1.5-8.5 x 0.2-4 cm, dark brown on drying, prominent veined on the lower surface, sessile, with dilated auricled base. Capitula radiate, few, in terminal corymb, 1.5 cm in diam., 4-5 bracteolate; bracteoles linear-lanceolate; peduncle 1-5.5 mm long. Involucre broadly campanulate, ca 10.5 mm long; bracts 10-15, linear-oblong, 5.5 mm long, acuminate, herbaceous with narrow scarious margins. Ray florets broadly oblong; tube 3.5 mm long. Disc florets ca 5 mm long; limb 3 mm long; tube 2 mm long. Achenes golden yellow, slender, ca 4 mm long. Pappus stramineous, of unequal, scabrid hairs, ca 4.5 mm long.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-October
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District(s):
Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern 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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
2000-2500
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