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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH103 : Blumea fistulosa (Roxb.) Kurz

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 243  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Blumea DC. - false family
Species : Blumea fistulosa
Plant Location in Melghat : Open areas along forest margins from Koktu,Belkund localities  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : UNCOMMON  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Blumea amethystina Hance
Blumea fistulosa var. fistulosa
Blumea fistulosa var. glomerata (DC.) C.B.Clarke
Blumea glomerata DC.
Blumea holosericea Dalzell & A.Gibson
Blumea nodiflora Hook.f.
Blumea purpurea DC.
Blumea racemosa DC.
Blumea spinellosa DC.
Conyza fistulosa Roxb.
Conyza stachyoides Spreng. ex DC.
Description : Herbs, ca. 0.3-1.2 m tall, annual, pubescent or velutinous; stems erect, slender, striate. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; lamina 3-15 x 0.5-5 cm, elliptic-obovate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, narrowly long attenuate at base, acute at apex, margin bidentate, surface villous-pilose above, white or brown villous beneath; upper leaves sessile, obovate-oblong, almost entire. Heads ca. 1-1.8 cm across, in axillary and terminal clusters; involucral bracts purple, lanceolate, acuminate, densely villous outside; florets purple. Achenes narrow-oblong, 8-10-ribbed, pilose; pappus white.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :