Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew.
Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew.
Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew.
MS059 : Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 280 |
| Synonym | : | Cacalia divergens Kuntze.;
Eupatorium acuminatum D.Don.;
Eupatorium divergens Roxb.;
Eupatorium nepalense Spreng.;
Eupatorium polyanthum Wall.;
Eupatorium versicolor Wall.;
Gymnanthemum divergens Sch.Bip. ex Walp.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bandar |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae |
| Description | : | Shrubby herbs, (0.6-)1-3 m tall. Stems erect, robust, divaricately branched, striate, red-brown pubescent-tomentulose, more densely so in upper part and branches. Petiole 5-7 mm, densely tomentulose; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or lanceolate, 5-12 × 2.5-10 cm, abaxially yellowish or reddish brown tomentose, denser along veins, adaxially papillose-scabrid-hairy, lateral veins 7-paired, veinlets reticulate, base cuneately attenuate, margin shallowly serrate, apex acuminate or shortly acute. Synflorescences usually terminal, panicles many branched, flat-topped. Capitula many; peduncles very short. Involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm wide; phyllaries 3- or 4-seriate, with greenish or purplish tip, ovate-oblong or ovate, 1-5 mm, puberulent or subglabrous, apex obtuse or shortly acute, outer short, ovate. Receptacle flat or rather convex, foveolate. Florets 8-12; corolla pink, tubular, 5-6 mm; lobes acute, glabrous. Achenes subcylindric, conspicuously 10-ribbed, glabrous, glandular between ribs. Pappus 2-seriate, sordid white or reddish; setae linear-lanceolate. 2n = 18. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In higher elvvation in Chikhaldara, Semadoh and Raipur ranges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200024623
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231484
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Bandar.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Asterales |
| Family | : Asteraceae |
| Genus | : Vernonia |
| Species | : Vernonia divergens (DC.) Edgew. |