Phyllocephalum tenue (C.B.Clarke) Narayana

 
  • Family : ASTERACEAE
    (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Compositae
  • Basionym : Centratherum tenue C.B.Clarke. (cross-taxon basionym)
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Phyllocephalum tenue (C.B.Clarke) Narayana
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Not common; found growing along roadsides
  • Key identification features : Dichotomously branched herb. Leaves broadly elliptic-lanceolate, short hairy above, white woolly beneath; upper leaves sessile. Heads outer involucral bracts foliaceous, innermost scarious, white tomentose. Achenes faintly 10 ribbed, pappus pale reddish
  • Flower, Fruit : October
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
  • Collection Date : 30-11-1954
  • Collection Nos : CS 2058
  • Collection Locality : Purandar, Pune district (MH)
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
    • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Literature :
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2.pp.232. Botanical survey of India, Govt. Of India.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Phyllocephalum tenue. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.

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