| Spreading Sneeze Weed |
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| File size | 487508 |
| Original date | 12/28/19 2:22 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 90.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 18.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Centipeda minima Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Artemisia minima, Centipeda orbicularis, Cotula minima, Grangea minima
Synonyms: Artemisia minima, Centipeda orbicularis, Cotula minima, Grangea minima
Spreading Sneeze Weed is a prostrate hairless herb,
with stems slender. Leaves are alternate, 1-1.5 x 0.8 cm, obovate,
blunt, wedge-shaped at base, toothed. Flower-heads are 3 x 2 mm, in
leaf-axils, stalkless, hemispherical; bracts 2-seriate, 1-mm long,
lanceshaped, hairy. Florets are of 2-types. Female florets in outer few
rows; flower minute, tubular, shortly 4-toothed, yellow. Bisexual
florets inner, few; floret bell-shaped, 0.6 mm long, 4-lobed, yellow;
stamens 4, anthers entire at base. Achenes are 1 mm long, obovate,
4-angled, fringed with hairs, brown; pappus absent. Spreading Sneeze
Weed is found in the Indian Subcontinent to Russian Far East and
Temperate E. Asia.
Medicinal uses:
Spreading Sneeze Weed is used
traditionally to treat skin disorders including relief of itching, dry
skin from proriasis. It is used medicinally to treat sinus infections
in Nepal.
Medicinal uses:
Spreading Sneeze Weed is used
traditionally to treat skin disorders including relief of itching, dry
skin from proriasis. It is used medicinally to treat sinus infections
in Nepal. | Identification credit: Sushant More | Photographed in Amboli, Maharashtra. |
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