Blumea fistulosa
Blumea fistulosa
MH103 : Blumea fistulosa (Roxb.) Kurz
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 243 |
| Synonym | : | Blumea amethystina Hance;
Blumea fistulosa var. fistulosa;
Blumea fistulosa var. glomerata (DC.) C.B.Clarke;
Blumea glomerata DC.;
Blumea holosericea Dalzell & A.Gibson;
Blumea nodiflora Hook.f.;
Blumea purpurea DC.;
Blumea racemosa DC.;
Blumea spinellosa DC.;
Conyza fistulosa Roxb.;
Conyza stachyoides Spreng. ex DC.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Herbs, ca. 0.3-1.2 m tall, annual, pubescent or velutinous; stems erect, slender, striate. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; lamina 3-15 x 0.5-5 cm, elliptic-obovate, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, narrowly long attenuate at base, acute at apex, margin bidentate, surface villous-pilose above, white or brown villous beneath; upper leaves sessile, obovate-oblong, almost entire. Heads ca. 1-1.8 cm across, in axillary and terminal clusters; involucral bracts purple, lanceolate, acuminate, densely villous outside; florets purple. Achenes narrow-oblong, 8-10-ribbed, pilose; pappus white. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Open areas along forest margins from Koktu,Belkund localities |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/265339 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Asterales |
| Family | : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family |
| Genus | : Blumea DC. - false family |
| Species | : Blumea fistulosa |