- Family : ASTERACEAE
(Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
- Synonym(s) : Blumea dasycoma var. pinnatifida (Miq.) Boerl.; Blumea densiflora var. hookeri (C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.) C.C.Chang & Y.Q.Tseng; Blumea hookeri C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.; Blumea klossii S.Moore; Conyza amygdalina Spreng. ex DC.; Conyza dasycoma var. pinnatifida Miq.; Conyza densiflora B.Heyne ex Wall.; Conyza excisa Wall.; Conyza falcigera Wall.; Placus grandis Baill.; Placus milnei Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Blumea densiflora DC.
- Habit : Undershrub or Herb
- Habitat : Humid shaded places, Along stream banks, Forests, Montane grasslands, Riversides
- Comments / notes : Camphor extracted from this plant is pronounced identical with that imported from China (Watt).
- Key identification features : Stout herbs or undershrubs; Leaves large, elliptic-Ianceolate, densely tomentose or thick white woolly beneath; Heads sessile in white felted panicles; corolla lobes of female flowers hairy; Achenes 10-ribbed with red pappus.
- Flower, Fruit : October- March
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Tirap, Siang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Helio hill, N.E of Lungleh, Sialsuk-Aizawl road, Sialsuk
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- Literature :
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 10
- Singh, N. P., Singh, K. P., & Singh, D. K. (2002). Flora of Mizoram (Vol. 1). Botanical Survey of India. Pg. : 750
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Blumea densiflora. Downloaded on 10 October 2024.
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