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Blumea oxyodonta
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation:
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Description:
Prostrate herbs, stem slender, radiating from the root stock, pubescent. Radical leaves simple, 5-8 x 2-3 cm, oblanceolate, apex obtuse, dentate; cauline leaves sessile, smaller. Heads few, 8 mm long, globose, in terminal panicles; bracts densely tomentose; outer 3 x 0.3 mm, lanceolate; inner 6 x 0.3 mm, linear. Female flowers yellow, many; corolla 3 mm long, lobes glandular hairy. Bisexual flowers few; corolla 4 mm long, broad. Achenes 3 mm long, ribbed, pubescent.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
October-May
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along streambeds and grassy slopes, also in the plains
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia and South China
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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):
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:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-1500
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Localities:
Peechi, Thekkady, Thunakkadavu, Cannanore, Panur, Nileswar, Pappinisseri, Kasaragod, Mannarshala, Vazhikadavu, Karimpuzha
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