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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH362 : Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 26  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Gnaphalium
Species : Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd.
Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Filago germanica subsp. spathulata (C.Presl) Arcang.
Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Willd.) Cabrera Gnaphalium chinense Gand.
Gnaphalium peregrinum Fernald.
Gnaphalium purpureum subsp. pensylvanicum (Willd.) O.Bolòs & Vigo.
Gnaphalium purpureum var. spathulatum (Lam.) Baker.
Description : Annual herbs. Stems erect, simple or more often branching from base, 10-50 cm tall, grayish tomentose. Basal leaves withering at anthesis; cauline leaves remote, scarcely diminishing in size upward, sessile, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2.5-8×0.4-1.8 cm; apex rounded to obtuse, margins entire or slightly wavy, upper surface loosely cobwebby, greenish, lower surface gray-green, woolly. Heads numerous in axillary clusters, forming more or less interrupted leafy (leaves 1.5-5.5 cm long) spicate panicles, lower branches usually stalked. Heads 3×1-1.5 mm when dry, densely woolly to 2/3 from base. Outer involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, ca. 2-2.5 mm long, apex long acute; inner ones linear-oblong, ca. 3 mm long, rounded to short acute. Outer florets ca. 100, corolla ca. 2.25 mm long; central florets 2 or 3, corolla ca. 2.25 mm long. Achenes brown, elliptic, 0.5 mm long, minutely glandular. Pappus white, ca. 2.3 mm long, connate at base into a ring.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : 4-methyl resorcinol
2-methyl resorcinol
gentistic
syringic
p-hydrobenzoic
vanillic
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 :