| |
Vernonia rauii
|
| |
|
| |
Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
|
| |
Citation: Vernonia rauii Umiyal, Fl. Ind. 13: 382. 1995.
Vernonia membranacea Bedd. ex S. Moore, J. Bot. 63:170.1925, non Gardn. 1846; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1880(1301). 1936.
|
| |
Malayalam Name(s):
|
| |
Tamil name(s):
|
| |
English name(s):
|
| |
Description:
Shrubs; stems tetragonous, few striate, brown pubescent. Leaves elliptic, short acuminate, mucronate, crenate-dentate, upto 15 x 6.5 cm, membranous, scabrous above, puberulous on the nerves beneath. Heads in ample corymbs, ca 16-flowered; peduncle slender, ca 2 cm long. Involucral bracts ca 6-seriate; outermost 1.5-2.5 mm long; middle oblong-lanceolate, ca 3.5 mm long, with a filiform, black appendage, recurved above; innermost ca 5 mm long, acute. Corolla tube narrow, infundibular; lobes oblong-lanceolate. Achenes ca 2 mm long, sparsely white papillose. Pappus hairs sordid white, biseriate; outer much shorter.
|
| |
Habit:
Shrub
|
| |
Flowering & Fruiting:
May-September
|
| |
District(s):
Idukki
|
| |
Medicinal:
|
| |
Habitat:
Grasslands
|
| |
Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
|
| |
Aquatic:
No
|
| |
Epiphyte(s):
No
|
| |
Saprophyte:
No
|
| |
Stem parasite:
No
|
| |
Root parasite:
No
|
| |
Flower colour(s):
|
| |
Weed:
No
|
| |
Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
|
| |
Exotic:
No
|
| |
Garden:
No
|
| |
Edible:
No
|
| |
Vegetable:
No
|
| |
Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
|
| |
IUCN status:
|
| |
Altitude:
|
| |
Localities:
|