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Vernonia cinerea

Scientific Name
Vernonia cinerea
Family Name
Asteraceae
Common Names
Ash-coloured fleebane
Local Names
Sahadevi (India), Kolong-kugon (bisaya),agas-moro (ilokano),bulak-manok,tagulinao (tagalog) (Philippines), Monara kudummbiya (Sri Lanka)
Description
An erect or somewhat decumbent annual herb with cylindric, striate, pubescentbranched stem. Leaves simple, alternate, variable in shape, ovate or lanceolate, shortlymucronate, irregularly toothed or shallowly crenate-serrate. Flowers pinkish-violetsmall heads, involucral bracts oblong, lanceolate, acuminate, awned, silky on the back.Fruits oblong, slightly narrowed at the base, clothed with appressed white hairs.(India)
An erect herb, sometimes branched in the upper part; short roots crowded; hasvariable leaves; inflorescence is a terminal panicle, compound and corymbose; 20-25flowered; fruit is cylindrical, faintly ribbed and 1.5- 2.5mm long. (Philippines)
An annual herb with a sli branched, still’, erect, cylindrical, more or less pubescentstem I 5-60cm tall; leaves simple, alternate, distant, the lower ones 4 -5cm long ,3- 3.5cm broad, gradually becoming smaller upwards, broadly oval to linear-lanceolate,tapering to the base, sub-obtuse, apiculate, coarsely and shallowly crenate-serrate, more or less hairy on both sides, petioles 0.6-1 .8cm long: flowers regular, bisexual, pinkish violet, all tubular, sessile on long, stalked, small heads in divaricate, terminal corvmhs, nvolucrc bracts linear to oblong. I 5mm long, mucronate, sill outside, flowers 20-25 in a head; sepals reduced into long bristles with a shorter outer row: petals , fused into a long, tubular corolla about 4 rum long, segments deep and narrow; stamens 5, on the corolla tube, anthers not tailed at the base; ovary Imm long, hairy, inferior, 2-carpella uiilocular with a single basal ovule, style stout, 3.5mm long, stigma bibbed; fruit a hairy achene. I . 5-2mm long hut not ribbed, with a white pappus the outer row of which is very short. Flowers all the year round (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Diarrhoea, cough, inflammation, skin diseases, leprosy, strangury, renal, vesicalcalculi, chronic, fever, eczema, ringworms, guinea worms, elephantiasis,conjunctivitis (India)
Diarrhoea, stomach ache, cough, bronchitis (Philippines)
Cough, asthma, anthelmintic, stomachic, wounds, carminative, emetic, dropsy,vermifuge, sores, dysentery, conjunctivitis, flatulence, colitis (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Ganewatta
Remarks
Vernonia cinerea (GRIN)

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