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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH359 : Blumea virens DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 23  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Blumea DC. - false family
Species : Blumea virens
Plant Location in Melghat : Dharghad  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Blumea diffusa Kurz.
Blumea hymenophylla DC.
Blumea integrifolia var. diffusa (R.Br. ex Benth.) Domin.
Blumea lapsanoides DC.
Blumea virens var. minor Hook.f.
Blumea virens var. virens.
Conyza virens Wall.
Erigeron virens Russ. ex DC.
Description : Herbs, 10-180 cm tall. Rhizome fibrous. Stems simple or branched, quite glabrous or rarely sparingly pilose. Leaves sessile, 3-22 × 0.7-10 cm; lower ones oblanceolate, lyrately lobed with terminal lobe obovate and lateral lobes broadly triangular to oblong, margin serrate with apiculate teeth, apex apiculate; upper ones obovate to oblanceolate, lobed or not, apiculate-serrate with minute teeth, both surfaces glabrate or sparingly pilose. Capitula usually in large, spreading, lax, terminal, leafy panicles, pedunculate, 5-7 mm in diam.; ultimate peduncles ca. 3 cm, bracteate, glabrous. Involucre columnar, 6-7 mm; phyllaries in 5 or 6 series, herbaceous, entirely reflexed at maturity, linear, 1-7.5 mm, sparsely pilose on abaxial surface with white, spreading hairs and colleters, apex mucronate, inner series with prominent scarious margins. Receptacle 2-2.5 mm in diam., convex, alveolate, glabrous. Corollas yellow, tubular; marginal florets filiform, 4-4.5 mm, 2- or 3-lobed, glabrous; central florets 4.5-5 mm, with 5 triangular, papillate lobes. Achenes oblong-columnar, ribbed, sparsely hairy. Pappus white, up to 4 mm. Fl. Feb-Apr. 2n = 18.
 
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Reference : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :