Cyanthillium(Little Ironweed)
Flower/Plant : Cyanthillium(Little Ironweed)
Origin:
Tropical Africa and to tropical Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.) and has become naturalized in Australia, Mesoamerica, tropical South America, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida
Plant Type : Asteraceae
Season: July to February
About :
Cyanthillium cinereum is an erect herb, 20 to 80 cm high, slightly branched and covered with fine gray hairs. The stem is finely striated. The leaves are alternate, simple. They are elliptical, attenuate base in corner and covered with a grayish hairs. The flowers are grouped in small purplish heads, assembled in a loose inflorescence. The fruits are carriers of small tufts of white hairs.
Flower
The flowers are all tabulate and hermaphrodites. The corolla is purple or pink, 5 mm long.
Fruit
The fruit is a Subcylindrical linear achene, 1.5 mm long, covered with short hairs. The pappus is formed of an outer series of linear scales of 0.25 mm and an inner series of barbed white bristles, 4 to 5 mm long.
Source :
Reference
Ashish Kumar Singh
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