Botanical name: Kleinia walkeri    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Gynura walkeri, Senecio walkeri (illeg.), Senecio nilagerensis

Nilgiri Kleinia is a fleshy subshrubs, to 1.5 m high, with stem hairless. Leaves are up to 13 x 4 cm, alternate, elliptic, tapering at either ends, rounded toothed-sawtoothed, hairless; leaf-stalk 4 cm long. Flower-heads are 1.4 x 0.8 cm, borne in branch-end corymb-like panicles. Involucral bracts are 1 cm long, in one series, oblong, hairless; receptacle paleate. Florets are all bisexual, tubular; florets 8 mm long, 5-lobed, white or pale yellow; anthers entire at base. Seedpods are 5 mm long, oblong, 10-ribbed; hairy between ribs; pappus many, cottony, white, bristly. Nilgiri Kleinia is found in the grasslands of South India, NE India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Flowering: September-April.

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