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Myriactis assamensis C.E.C. Fischer in Kew Bull. 35. 1940.


Herbs, much branched, sulcate, 10 - 25 cm high. Leaves linear oblanceolate, acute at apex, narrowed to a semiamplexicaul base, entire or 1 - 2-toothed at margin 1.5 - 2.5 x 0.2 - 0.3 cm. Heads solitary, hemispheric, 3 - 4 mm across; peduncles ca 7 cm long, slender, hispidulous. Involucral bracts 2-seriate, 2 - 3 mm long, thinly membranaceous, oblong-obtuse, minutely denticulate. Ray florets 2 - 3-seriate; ligule white, 7 - 8 mm long, linear. Achenes dark brown, glandular, narrowly oblanceolate, ca 3 mm long, compressed.

Fl. Jan. - March.

Distrib. India: On rocks, ca 900 m. Meghalaya and Nagaland.

Endemic.




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