MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS059 : Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 280 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In higher elvvation in Chikhaldara, Semadoh and Raipur ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Asteraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bandar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cacalia divergens Kuntze. Eupatorium acuminatum D.Don. Eupatorium divergens Roxb. Eupatorium nepalense Spreng. Eupatorium polyanthum Wall. Eupatorium versicolor Wall. Gymnanthemum divergens Sch.Bip. ex Walp. |
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| Description : | Shrubby herbs, (0.6-)1-3 m tall. Stems erect, robust, divaricately branched, striate, red-brown pubescent-tomentulose, more densely so in upper part and branches. Petiole 5-7 mm, densely tomentulose; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, 5-12 × 2.5-10 cm, abaxially yellowish or reddish brown tomentose, denser along veins, adaxially papillose-scabrid-hairy, lateral veins 7-paired, veinlets reticulate, base cuneately attenuate, margin shallowly serrate, apex acuminate or shortly acute. Synflorescences usually terminal, panicles many branched, flat-topped. Capitula many; peduncles very short. Involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm wide; phyllaries 3- or 4-seriate, with greenish or purplish tip, ovate-oblong or ovate, 1-5 mm, puberulent or subglabrous, apex obtuse or shortly acute, outer short, ovate. Receptacle flat or rather convex, foveolate. Florets 8-12; corolla pink, tubular, 5-6 mm; lobes acute, glabrous. Achenes subcylindric, conspicuously 10-ribbed, glabrous, glandular between ribs. Pappus 2-seriate, sordid white or reddish; setae linear-lanceolate. 2n = 18. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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