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Vernonia ornata
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Vernonia ornata Talbot, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 11: 691. Pl. 13. 1898; Uniyal in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 376. 1995; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 93. 2000; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 486. 2009.
Vernonia dalzelliana Drumm. & Hutch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1909: 261. 1909; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 674(474). 1921; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 257. 1988; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 161. 1988.
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Description:
Herbs or undershrubs, upto 1.25 m tall; stems ribbed, glandular pubscent above. Leaves simple, alternate, 14 x 5 cm, elliptic, oblanceolate, ovate or obovate, acute or acuminate, membranous, sparsely pubescent above and on the nerves beneath, petioled. Inflorescence corymbose, axillary and terminal. Heads ca. 1.2 cm across, ca 15-flowered; peduncle slender, upto 6.8 cm long, with 1 or more subulate bracts. Involucral bracts many-seriate, decurrent on the peduncle, acute, obtuse, apiculate or mucronate, ciliate and darker near the tip; outer ca. 2.5 mm long; innermost ca. 6 mm long. Achenes 2 mm long, glabrous or hairy, 10-ribbed. Pappus hairs reddish, outer very short.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-March
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Kannur, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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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):
Violet
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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:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Damsite, on way to Brahmagiri, Olichuchattam
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