Family: Asteraceae
Synonym: Sphaeranthus cochinchinensis Lour., Sphaeranthus
glaber DC.
Vernacular
name: Vella-adakkamaniyan, Velutha-adakkamaniyan
(Malayalam)
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Paddy fields and marshy areas
Flowering
& Fruiting: January-March
Distribution:
Indo-Malesia, China and Australia
Key identification features:
African Globe Thistle is a plant with usually robust stems, which are hairless
or velvet-hairy, curved, ascending, branched, winged, wings entire. Stem leaves
are obovate-oblong, velvety or becoming hairless. Inflorescence consists of
clusters of white globose or ovoid flower-heads. Achenes cylindric, without
pappus.
Uses:
In Ayurveda, the plant is believed to pacify vitiated vata, pitta epilepsy,
migraine, jaundice, fever, cough, hemorrhoids, helminthiasis, skin diseases and
as nervine tonic.
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