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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