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Anaphalis neelgerryana
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Anaphalis neelgerryana (Sch.-Bip. ex DC.) DC., Prodr. 6: 272. 1838; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 287. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 697(490). 1921; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 148. 1988; P.C. Pant in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 69. 1995; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 359. 1997.
Gnaphalium neelgerryanum Sch.-Bip. ex DC. in Wight, Contrib. 21. 1834.
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Description:
Herbs, perennial, erect, ca 25 cm high, with woody root-stock; branches many, slender, whole plant clothed with white cottony tomentum. Leaves linear, simple, 0.2-1 x 0.1-0.3 cm, acute at apex, base rounded and adhering to stem, margins recurved, surfaces densely white woolly 1-nerved, sessile. Heads densely crowded or solitary or in corymbose clusters, ca 0.3 cm across; peduncle ca 3 mm long, densely white woolly tomentose. Involucral bracts 4-5-seriate; outermost brown, ovate-elliptic, enveloped in woolly tomentum; inner bracts glistening white with brownish or darker base, oblanceolate. Ray florets with filiform corolla, ca 1.8 mm long, obscurely toothed. Corolla of disc florets tubular, ca 2 mm long, 5 or more toothed. Achenes ca 0.4 mm long, terete, minutely papillose; pappus hairs white, minutely plumose.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-October
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District(s):
Malappuram, Palakkad, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grasslands
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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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:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
2000-2600
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Localities:
Sispara, Kunda hills
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