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Cyanthillium cinereum
Synonym
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Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less.
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Family
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Compositae
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Local name
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English- Ash colored fleabane, Purple fleabane
Malayalam- Poovamkurunthala
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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Throughout the year.
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Distribution
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Pantropics
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Deciduous forests, also in the plains
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Endemic
/Exotic
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Thailand
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Uses
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Plant possess anti cancerous property. Seeds: Cures
diseases caused by roundworms and threadworms, coughs, flatulence, intestinal
colic, dysuria, leucoderma, psoriasis and other chronic skin-diseases. The
seeds are made into a paste with lime juice and used for destroying pediculi.
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Key botanical characters:
Annual or perennial herbs, stem ribbed, smooth or puberulus. Leaves variable,
ovate, acute at both ends, thinly hairy below; petiole slender. Heads in
terminal corymbose cymes, peduncled; outer bracts minute, inner oblong,
acute, cuspidate, hairy. Flowers 5-10, similar; corolla long, glabrous,
bluish-purple. Achenes long, hairy.
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