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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH274 : Gnaphalium polycaulon Pers.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Gnaphalium
Species : Gnaphalium polycaulon Pers.
Plant Location in Melghat : Chandore  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : many stem cudweed, Kopahi-bon
 
Synonym : Gnaphalium floccosum DC.
Gnaphalium gracillimum Perr. ex DC.
Gnaphalium multicaule Willd.
Gnaphalium niliacum Raddi ex Spreng.
Gnaphalium schomburgkii Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium strictum Roxb.
Description : Herbs up to 30 cm tall. Densely white pilose. Heads in terminal leafy clusters. Achenes papillose. Erect woolly herbs, 20-30 cm high; stems terete. Leaves 5-7 x 1 cm, oblanceolate to spathulate, obtuse, narrow to the base, entire. Heads 3-5 x 2 mm, in axillary congested spikes; bracts 2-3-seriate, 3 x 1 mm, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, hyaline. Bisexual flowers 2, central; corolla 2 mm long; lobes glandular. Female flowers very many; corolla 2 mm long, narrow. Achenes 2-3-angled, glandular between angles; pappus many, setaceous, equal to corolla.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :