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Anaphalis marcescens
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Anaphalis marcescens (Wight) Clarke, Comp. Ind. 110.1876; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3:286.1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 696(489). 1921; P.C. Pant in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13:67.1995; Swarup. et al., Shola For. Kerala 37. 1998.
Gnaphalium marcescens Wight, Ic. t. 1115. 1856.
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Description:
Herbs, slender, branched and woody, upto 45 cm high; stems and undersurface of leaves clothed with white cottony pubescence. Leaves spreading or reflexed, linear, slightly dilated at base acute at apex, margins recurved, 0.8-3 x 0.1-0.4 cm, upper surface glabrous, lower surface fulvous cottony tomentose, sessile, 1-nerved, adnate to stem. Heads in dense, rounded, terminal, subcorymbose clusters, ca 4 mm across; peduncle ca 3 mm long, densely clothed with rusty brown wool. Involucral bracts white, 3-4-seriate, marcescent; outermost obovate-oblong, brownish at base, covered with rusty brown tomentum; inner lanceolate-oblong, brownish at basal end. Ray florets female with filiform corolla, ca 2 mm long, 4-toothed; lobes glandular. Achenes ca 0.5 mm long, hairy. Pappus hairs white, minutely bristly.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-January
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Banks of streams on wet rocks
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Distribution:
South India and Sri Lanka
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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
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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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
2000-2600
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Localities:
Kanthaloor forests
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