MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH474 : Gnomophalium pulvinatum (Delile) Greuter |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | COMPOSITAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Filago prostrata DC. Gnaphalium crispatulum C.B.Clarke Gnaphalium depressum Roxb. Gnaphalium pulverulentum Bové ex DC. Gnaphalium pulvinatum Delile Homognaphalium pulvinatum (Delile) Fayed & Zareh |
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| Description : | Herbs, annual, prostrate, densely whitish to grayish lanate tomentose. Stems 5-15 cm, many from base, much branched. Leaves sessile, spatulate or obovate-spatulate, 5-15 × 1.5-4 mm, densely white lanate abaxially, hairy adaxially, 1-veined, base narrowly attenuate, apex mucronate; upper leaves densely crowded. Capitula campanulate, 3-4 mm wide, congested in terminal clusters, surrounded by terminal leaves. Phyllaries 2- or 3-seriate, greenish tinged, narrowly elliptic or linear to lanceolate, apex acute, hyaline at tip. Disk florets 4 or 5, bisexual; female florets numerous. Corolla ca. 1 mm, minutely papillose. Pappus setae white, 6 or 7 in female florets and 3 or 4 in bisexual ones, not united into a ring; apical cell subclavate. Fl. Nov-May. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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