| Erect, white wooly, annual herb, grows upto 7.5-31.0 cm high, woody at base. Stem: terete, much branched, tinged purplish. Leaves: sessile, lamina tapering at base, linear, linear-lanceolate, oblong-oblanceolate, surfaces densely white, wooly abaxially sparsely wooly adaxially, margins serrulate or entire. Flowers: capitula numerous, sessile or shortly stalked, invol. bracts 4-5 seriate, imbricate, scabrid, pale-yellow, brownish-tinged spines, linear-oblong, margins scarious. Corolla tubular-campanulate, tube 5 lobed, divided more than half of the corolla length, acute, revolute. Anthers barbellate, apex acute. Style 0.5 cm long, cypsels pale-brown, 10-ribbed, base cuneate, densely silky-villous. Flowers and fruits appears during September - December. |
| Notes: |
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acilepis lanata Spreng. ex DC. |
| synonym | Dicoma gnaphaloides Mattei |
| synonym | Dicoma lanuginosa DC. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Undershrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Dry Evergreen to Dry Deciduous Forests
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Dhule, Nasik, Pune
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Kancheepuram, Salem, Thiruvallur, Tiruchchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai, Virudhunagar
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3546
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3546 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Mayuranathan 1929
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3546
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987; Mayuranathan 1929
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3546
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asterales |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Genus | Dicoma |
| Species | Dicoma tomentosa Cass. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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