- Family : SCROPHULARIACEAE
(Figwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BRAHMI FAMILY (ब्राह्मी फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Linderniaceae
- Synonym(s) : Verbascum spectabile Salisb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Verbascum thapsus L.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Montane scrub jungles
- Comments / notes : Introduced to southern part and central part of India
- Key identification features : Erect herbs, up to 1.5 m high, densely stellate-tomentose; Basal leaves in rosette, oblanceolate, densely tomentose; Flowers in dense, tomentose, spicate racemes, yellow; Capsules globose; Seeds rugose.
- Flower, Fruit : March-July
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Chikkaballapur district
- Kerala : Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
- Uttarakhand : Dehradun (Chakrata)
- Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Tawang
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Afghanistan, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Central European Rus, China South-Central, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Bhutan, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland
- World Distribution : India, Northern Africa, Asia
- Literature :
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 220
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Verbascum thapsus. Downloaded on 9 October 2024.
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