| Western Ghats Vernonia |
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| File size | 443036 |
| Original date | 10/30/21 1:56 PM |
| Resolution | 6000 x 4000 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 220.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Cyanthillium albicans Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Vernonia albicans, Conyza albicans
Synonyms: Vernonia albicans, Conyza albicans
Western Ghats Vernonia is an erect annual herb with
striped branches, growing primarily on bare slopes and in forest
undergrowth. Leaves are alternate, ovate-lanshaped, velvet-hairy above,
woolly below. Each plant produces 35-40 panicled heads consisting of
pendulous stalked flat-topped flower-heads in leaf axils, as well as at
branch-ends. A capitulum is about 12 mm long, about 7 mm wide, woolly
outside and consists of about 30 disc florets, while ray florets are
absent. The florets open acropetally within two days - 76 % open on the
first and 24 % on the second day. The capitulum is protected by 5-6 mm
long, 4 mm wide green involucres. The disc florets are small, 8.1mm
long, 2 mm wide, pink or purplish, odourless, bisexual. Western Ghats
Vernonia is found in Peninsular India, Malaysia, China and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: July-October.
Medicinal uses:
Western Ghats Vernonia is used
for treatment of filariasis and eye infections by tribal people.
Medicinal uses:
Western Ghats Vernonia is used
for treatment of filariasis and eye infections by tribal people.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Bellary, Karnataka. |
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