Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd.
MH362 : Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 26 |
| Synonym | : | Filago germanica subsp. spathulata (C.Presl) Arcang.;
Gamochaeta pensylvanica (Willd.) Cabrera
Gnaphalium chinense Gand.;
Gnaphalium peregrinum Fernald.;
Gnaphalium purpureum subsp. pensylvanicum (Willd.) O.Bolòs & Vigo.;
Gnaphalium purpureum var. spathulatum (Lam.) Baker.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Annual herbs. Stems erect, simple or more often branching from base, 10-50 cm tall, grayish tomentose. Basal leaves withering at anthesis; cauline leaves remote, scarcely diminishing in size upward, sessile, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2.5-8×0.4-1.8 cm; apex rounded to obtuse, margins entire or slightly wavy, upper surface loosely cobwebby, greenish, lower surface gray-green, woolly. Heads numerous in axillary clusters, forming more or less interrupted leafy (leaves 1.5-5.5 cm long) spicate panicles, lower branches usually stalked. Heads 3×1-1.5 mm when dry, densely woolly to 2/3 from base. Outer involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, ca. 2-2.5 mm long, apex long acute; inner ones linear-oblong, ca. 3 mm long, rounded to short acute. Outer florets ca. 100, corolla ca. 2.25 mm long; central florets 2 or 3, corolla ca. 2.25 mm long. Achenes brown, elliptic, 0.5 mm long, minutely glandular. Pappus white, ca. 2.3 mm long, connate at base into a ring. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chikhaldara |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: 4-methyl resorcinol; 2-methyl resorcinol; gentistic; syringic; p-hydrobenzoic; vanillic; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
- https://biodiversity.bt/species/show/3991
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=100&taxon_id=200023994
- https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20013024514 |
| Reference | : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII 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 | : Gnaphalium |
| Species | : Gnaphalium pensylvanicum Willd. |