Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Cyathocline purpurea - (Buch.-Ham. ex Don) Kuntze
Family Asteraceae
Common Name Gangotra, Bandhaniya, Purple bane
Habit Herb
Synonym Artemisia hirsute Rottler ex Spreng
Habitat Moistplaces
Color Of Flower Purple
Key Characters Leaves lyrate or pinnatisect, heads pink or purple.
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Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
Class :
Gamopetalae
Series :
Inferae
Order :
Asterales
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Plant Description
Erect, annual, odorous herb; stem branched, grooved, covered with soft, glandular hairs; leaves alternate, pinnatisect, sessile, amplexicaul at base, toothed, covered with soft hairs; heads heterogamous, small, few in peduncled, terminal, corymbose panicles; involucres hemispheric, bracts 2-seriate, lanceolate, acute, margins scarious; receptacle with a constructed base, elevated, top concave, naked; florets not rayed; outer florets longer, tubular, many seriate, female, fertile, filiform, 2-toothed; inner florets bisexual, usually sterile, tubular, 5-fid; anther base truncate; style exserted beyond; achenes minute, oblong, smooth; pappus absent. |
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