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Baccharoides anthelmintica
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Synonym
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Vernonia anthelmintica(L.)Willd
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Family |
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Asteraceae |
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Local
name |
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Malayalam-Kattujeeragum English-Purple fleabane |
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Flowering
and fruiting period |
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September-March |
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Distribution |
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Indo-Malesia |
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Distribution
in Kerala |
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Kasaragode, Idukki, Palakkad, Kannur, Kollam |
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Habitat |
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Deciduous forests, also grown as medicinal plants |
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Uses |
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Used as a folk medicine |
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Key botanical characters: Stout herbs, to 1.5 m high; stems scabrid. Leaves to 13 x 5 cm,
elliptic, acute at apex and base, scabrous; sharply serrate; nerves 10-11
pairs; petiole 1-2 cm long. Heads 15 x 12 mm, in lax corymbose panicles;
bracts 10 mm long, leafy, oblong, obtuse; inner bracts smaller, 8 x 2 mm.
Flowers 30-40; corolla 10 mm long, with a narrow basal part, widen above,
lobes acute, glabrous; anthers 2 mm long. Achenes 4 x 1 mm, glandular between
ribs, pubescent; outer pappuspaleacous, fimbriate, inner pappus 6 mm long,
reddish. |
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