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Vernonia anaimudica
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Vernonia anaimudica Shetty & Vivek., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 12: 266. 1970; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 675(475). 1921; Uniyal in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 353. 1995.
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Description:
Shrubs, upto 2.5 m tall; stems striate, brown tomentose above. Leaves alternate in pentastichous arrangement, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, crenulate-serrulate, upto 12 x 5 cm, coriaceous, bullate, white tomentose beneath with pale brown-green tinge, petioled. Heads in terminal corymbs or in the axils of upper leaves, ca 19-flowered. Involucral bracts green, tip and margins often pigmented brown, 5-6-seriate, mucronate; outer ovate, ca 2 mm long, tomentose; innermost linear, ca 6 mm long, puberulous. Florets fragrant; corolla glandular. Achenes ca 3.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, glandular between the ribs. Pappus hairs buff or dirty white, biseriate; outer shorter.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
February-
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District(s):
Idukki
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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):
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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:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Rajamala
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