Botanical name: Helichrysum cutchicum    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Anaphalis cutchica

Kachchh Cudweed is a spreading herb up to 40 cm, thinly clothed with grey-white cottony wool. Leaves spoon-shaped-linear, bases narrow, adhering to the stem, tip pointed, with a short sharp point, upper surface with lax cottony white hairs, lower surface white woolly, 1-nerved, stalkless. Flower-heads are borne at branch-ends or very rarely in leaf-axils, in corymb-like clusters. Involucral bracts are many series, covered with white, cottony wool on outer faces; outer ovate, irregularly toothed at tip; inner ovate-oblong, longer than the outer ones. Ray florets are thread-like, minutely toothed, disc florets 5- toothed. Seedpods are oblong. Pappus hairs are in one series, barbellate, fused at base. Kachchh Cudweed is endemic to Gujarat. Flowering: September-April.

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