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Panicled Camphorweed
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Panicled Camphorweed
A Native Photo: Maniruddin Dhabak
Common name: Panicled Camphorweed
Botanical name: Pluchea paniculata    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Blumea hispidula, Blumea senecioides, Blumea paniculata

Panicled Camphorweed is an annual herb with stems erect, velvet-hairy. Leaves are elliptic, somewhat pointed, base wedge-shaped, margin distantly toothed. are borne in lax panicles, clustered at the ends of branches, 5-8 mm in diameter, carried on long, hairy flower-cluster-stalks. Involucral bracts are pruplish-tinged, linear, with membranous margins. Florets are yellow, tubular. Panicled Camphorweed is found in forests, valleys along streams in the Indian Subcontinent to S. China and W. Malesia, inlcuding East Himalaya and Western Ghats at altitudes of 300-1400 m.

Identification credit: Maniruddin Dhabak Photographed in Maharashtra.

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