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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH107 : Blumea oxyodonta DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 247  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Blumea DC. - false family
Species : Blumea oxyodonta
Plant Location in Melghat : Frequent in low lying areas in fields, drying ponds, along road sides and moist shaded spots  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : spiny leaved blumea,
 
Synonym : Blumea bovina Edgew.
Blumea subracemosa (Miq.) Boerl.
Conyza bovina Buch.-Ham. ex DC.
Conyza oxyodonta Wall. ex DC.
Conyza subracemosa Miq.
Erigeron cuspidatus Spreng. ex DC. [Illegitimate]
Erigeron graminosus DC.
Placus oxyodonta (DC.) Kuntze
Placus subracemosa (Miq.) Kuntze
Description : Perennials, with short taproot. Stems usually numerous, prostrate or ascending, 15-30(-40) cm, finely pubescent. Leaves ± sessile, elliptic to obovate, 1-5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, both surfaces sparsely to densely villous and stipitate glandular, base cuneate, margin with a few sharp subspinose teeth, apex acute. Capitula few in terminal and axillary panicles. Involucre ca. 4-seriate; phyllaries lanceolate to linear, 2-6 mm, with long eglandular hairs and some stalked glands. Receptacle glabrous. Corollas yellow, ca. 4 mm; lobes of marginal florets with few eglandular hairs, lobes of central florets with dense minute glandular pubescence and some long eglandular hairs. Anthers white, unribbed, ca. 0.6 mm. Pappus white, 3-4 mm. Fl. Mar-Jul. 2n = 18.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :