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Anaphalis barnesii
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Anaphalis barnesii C.E.C. Fisch., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1939: 249. 1939; P.C. Pant in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 55. 1995.
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Description:
Herbs upto 75 cm high, woody below, sparsely branched; stems brown, striate. Leaves lanceolate, erect and adpressed, recurved at margins, 1-1.3 x 0.5 cm, surfaces greyish tomentose. Heads 0.6-1 cm in diam., sessile or peduncled; peduncle ca 6 mm long. Involucral bracts 5-6-seriate; outermost white with a brown median stripe on lower half and white with greenish or olivaceous marking on upper half; ovate, densely long silky tomentose on the back; inner spathulate, obtuse or subacute. Marginal florets yellow, ca 2.5 mm long, 4-toothed. Disc florets with slender corolla, slightly swollen at base and expanded at mouth, toothed. Achenes narrowly oblong, ca 1.5 mm long, truncate at apex, faintly and bluntly 4-angled, glabrous. Pappus hairs white, bristly.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats (Kerala)
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Kerala
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IUCN status:
Endangered (EN)
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Altitude:
-2350
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