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Vernonia meeboldii
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Vernonia meeboldii W. W. Smith, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. 4: 283. 1911; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 673(473). 1921; Uniyal in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 373.1995; Gopalan & Henry, Endemic Pl. Agasthiyamala 434. 2000.
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Description:
Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, rotundate, apiculate, nearly entire, 6-8 x 1.5-2.5 cm, glabrous, base amplexicaul, subauriculate. Heads large, in 1-3-capitulate corymbs, 30-40 flowered. Involucral bracts many seriate, ca 4 mm long, obtuse; outer smaller, oblong, triangular at tip, glabrous or puberulous without; inner completely glabrous. Achenes 2.5 mm long, glabrous, 10-ribbed. Pappus hairs reddish, outer row absent.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-April
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram
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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:
Endangered (EN)
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