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Vernonia pectiniformis var. pectiniformis
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Vernonia pectiniformis DC. in Wight, Contrib. 2. 1834, var. pectiniformis; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 239. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 673(473). 1921; Uniyal in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 377. 1995; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 384. 1997; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 94. 2000.
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Description:
Undershrubs or shrubs; branches terete, striate, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply serrate, upto 9 x 1.5 cm, narrowed towards base, glabrous above, pilose hairy beneath. Heads in terminal corymbs, 10-25- flowered. Involucral bracts dark tipped, obtuse, mucronate; outer ca 0.75 mm long; intermediate elliptic-oblong, ca 4 mm long; inner ca 5.5 mm long. Achenes ca 2 mm long, glandular, 10-ribbed. Pappus hairs reddish or dirty white; outer hairs short.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
April-December
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District(s):
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Shola forests
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Distribution:
India and Sri Lanka
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Old Devicolam to Gudular Junction, Karuvarakundu, Olichuchattam
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