Cirsium shansiense Petr.

 
  • Family : ASTERACEAE
    (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cirsium shansiense Petr.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Key identification features : Erect, glabrous or glabrescent thistles; Stems striate, simple or branched above, with erect, slender branches; Leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear-oblong, sinuately lobed or pinnatifid, margins ciliated or spinescent, subdecurrent at base, scaberulous or smooth above, white tomentose beneath; heads solitary, long-peduncled; Involucral bracts numerous, adpressed, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with spinulose tips; inner linear, with inflexed acute tips; Florets purple; Achenes minute; pappus with clavellulate apices.
  • Flower, Fruit : May- December
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Tuisenhar
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bhutan, China, India, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar, Qinghai, Tibet
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bhutan, China, India, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar, Qinghai, Tibet
  • Literature :
    • Singh, N. P., Singh, K. P., & Singh, D. K. (2002). Flora of Mizoram (Vol. 1). Botanical Survey of India. Pg. : 758
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 16
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cirsium shansiense. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.

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