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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH128 : Pulicaria wightiana (DC.) C.B.Clarke

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 268  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Pulicaria Gaerth - false fleabane
Species : Pulicaria wightiana
Plant Location in Melghat : In open grasslands on Chikhaldara, Vairat Plateaux and Dhargad & kelpani  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : UNCOMMON  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : Sontikli, Sonela,
 
Synonym : Aster hydrabadensis Wall.
Callistephus heyneanus DC.
Callistephus wightianus DC.
Erigeron wightianus Wall. [Invalid])
Description : Sontikli is an annual herb, growing up to 1-2 ft high. Stems are erect, pinkish, branched at the top. Branches are anglled, rising, leafy and velvety. Alternately arranged stalkless leaves are oblong, 3-8 cm long, toothed, velvety. Leaves are smaller towards the top. Flower-heads are yellow, 2-4 cm across, arising singly on leafy stalks, 10-20 cm long, at the end of branches. The stalks are hollow, enlarged upwards. Ray florets are 1.5-2 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, 3-toothed at the tip. Flowering: August-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :