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Sonchus oleraceus
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Sonchus oleraceus L., Sp. Pl. 794. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 414. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 732(514). 1921; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 208. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 170. 1999; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 255. 1990; Hajra in Hajra et al., Fl. India 12: 321. 1995; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 478. 2009.
Sonchus ciliatus Lam., Fl. Franc. 287. 1805.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Varapputhannal
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Milk weed
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Description:
Annuals, to 90 cm high; stems glandular hairy. Leaves to 15 x 6 cm, runcinate-pinnatifid, with a wide hastate terminal lobe, auricled and amplexicaule at base; lobes spinulose-serrate. Heads 15 x 8 mm, few, in panicled cymes; bracts 10 x 1.5 mm, 3-seriate, oblong, obtuse. Female corolla 12 mm long, limb yellow, 5-lobed; lobes obtuse. Achenes 3 x 1 mm, narrowed to the base, truncate at apex, muriculate; pappus 10 mm long, white, cottony.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-November
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District(s):
Kollam, Idukki, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
Cosmopolitan
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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:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-2600
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Localities:
Olikkudy, Thekkady, Pathenthode
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