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Pseudoconyza viscosa
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Family:
ASTERACEAE/COMPOSITAE
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Citation: Pseudoconyza viscosa (Mill.) d'Arcy, Phytologia 25: 281. 1973.
Conyza viscosa Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8, no. 8. 1768.
Conyza aurita L. f., Suppl. Pl. 367.1781.
Blumea aurita (L. f.) DC. in Wight, Contrib. 16. 1834, Prodr. 5: 449. 1836; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 150. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 210. 1989.
Laggera aurita (L. f.) Benth. ex Clarke, Comp. Ind. 92. 1876; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 271. 1881; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 689(485). 1921; S. Kumar in Hajra et al., Fl. India 13: 150.1995.
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Description:
Annual herbs, 30-75 cm tall, viscid, strongly aromatic; stems erect, terete, covered with long spreading, white, pilose hairs and shorter stipitate glands. Leaves alternate, 1-10 x 0.3-3 cm, the lower ones pinnatifid with broadly elliptic or oblanceolate terminal segments and 2-3 oblong lateral lobes on each side; upper leaves oblong or obovate, dentate, acute at the apex, auriculate and interruptedly decurrent at the base with 2-3 linear lobes on each side of the stem, sparsely covered on both surfaces with long white villous hairs and numerous stipitate glands. Heads several (upto 15) in terminal corymbs; phyllaries 1-1.25 cm broad. Involucral bracts 3-4 seriate, linear-lanceolate, 2.5-7 mm long, pubescent and glandular. Flowers pale mauve, female corollas 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous; corollas of hermaphrodite flowers 5-5.5 mm long, lobes usually glandular. Achenes 0.75-1 mm long, dark brown, subcompressed, sparsely sericeous; pappus white, 4-4.5 mm long.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-April
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District(s):
Palakkad, Kottayam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Evergreen forests
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Distribution:
India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Africa
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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):
Pink, Violet
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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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Altitude:
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Localities:
Punnamala
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