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Centratherum punctatum
Synonym
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Centratherum
intermedium Less.
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Family
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Asteraceae
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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August-January
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Distribution
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Native of South America
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Grown as garden plant,Medicinal
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Key botanical
characters:
Prostrate herbs. Leaves simple, alternate,Elliptic;
Margin serrate; nerves pinnate. Heads terminal, single, pink coloured.
Flowers numerous tube florets. Involucral phyllaries many-seriate. Corolla
pink, tube slender, 5-lobed. Anthers obtuse.
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