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Vernonia comorinensis
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Vernonia comorinensis W. W. Smith, Rec. Bot. Surv. India 4:283.1911; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 675(474).1921; Uniyal in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 369. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 211. 1998; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 393. 2002.
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Description:
Large shrubs; branchlets wooly tomentose. Leaves to 20 x 5 cm, lanceolate, acute at either ends, rugose above, margins irregular, densely white-tomentose below; nerves 12-15 pairs; petiole 1.5 cm long. Heads 9 x 5 mm, oblong, in dense corymbose panicle; branchlets wooly-tomentose; bracts oblong, wooly, 6 mm long, outer smaller, lanceolate. Flowers 15-22; corolla 6 mm long. Achenes 3-winged, glandular; outer pappus paleaceous, inner setaceous, white.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-March
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District(s):
Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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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):
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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:
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Altitude:
1000-1200
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Localities:
Vellimala, Athirumala
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