Laggera aurita
Laggera aurita
Laggera aurita
Laggera aurita
MH125 : Laggera aurita (L.f.) C.B. Clarke
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 265 |
| Synonym | : | Pseudoconyza viscosa (Mill.);
Blumea viscosa (Mill.) V.M.Badillo;
Blumea aurita (L.f.) DC.;
Blumea lyrata (Kunth) Badillo;
Conyza aurita L.f.;
Conyza lyrata Kunth;
Conyza viscosa Mill.;
Pseudoconyza lyrata (Kunth) Cuatrec.;
Pseudoconyza viscosa var. lyrata (Kunth) D’Arcy; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Sticky Blumea, clammy false oxtongue |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae |
| Description | : | Erect perennial 30-60 cm tall, aromatic (smell of turpentine), branched herbs. Stem usually not winged. Leaves ovate to obovate, 2-12 x 1-5 (-6) cm, lyrately or pinnately lobed, with a cuneate or narrow base or sometimes lobed to the base; lobes decurrent, 6-8 x 4-5 mm. Capitula 7-9 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3-6 (-7) mm, outer lanceoalate, inner linear, glandular. Florets purple, 4-6 mm long. Cypselas dark red-brown, c. 1 mm obscurely ribbed, sparsely hairy, pappus white, 4-4.5 mm long. Fl.Per.: March-June. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Mostly in and around villages on moist, shaded sports |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sticky%20Blumea.html
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242426899
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/265424 |
| 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 | : |
| Order | : Asterales |
| Family | : Asteraceae |
| Genus | : Laggera |
| Species | : Laggera aurita |