Aster verticillatus

Aster verticillatus (Reinw.) Brouillet, Semple & Y. L. Chen (Syn: Carpesium scandens Schult.f. ex Miq.; Lavenia rigida Wall.; Leptocoma formosanum Yamamoto; Leptocoma racemosa Less.; Leptocoma verticillatum var. subsessile Oliv. ex Miquel; Rhynchospermum formosanum Yamam.; Rhynchospermum subsessile (Oliv. ex Miq.) Nakai; Rhynchospermum verticillatum var. subsessilis Oliv. ex Miq.; Zollingeria scandens Sch.Bip.);

India: Temperate Himalayas and N.E. region 1300-2600 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland; Bhutan, Myanmar, Japan and Malaya Island as per BSI Flora of India;

China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan,
Yunnan), Taiwan, Tibet, Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Sagaing),
Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu), South Korea, Java, Jammu & Kashmir
(Kashmir), India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh,
Meghalaya, Nagaland), Nepal, Vietnam as per Catalogue of life;

Plant c 90; stems finely pubescent. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 5-10 x 1-2.5cm on main stems, acuminate, cuneate at base, denticulate to finely serrate, scabridulous above, sparsely puberulous and densely subsessile-glandular beneath; petiole slender, to 7mm. Involucres 3mm across; phyllaries oblong, 1.5-2mm, obtuse, scarious-margined. corollas white, tubes subsessile glandular. Tube of ray corollas 0.7mm; ligule c 1.1 x 0.7mm. Disc corollas 2.5mm. Achenes obovoid, sparsely subsessile glandular; body c 3mm; beak of ray achenes slender, to 1.5mm, of disc achenes very stout, 0.5mm; pappus bristles c 7, whitish, c 2mm.

Fl. October (last flower)

Woods and wet jungle.

(Attributions- A.J.C Grierson & D.G.Long. Flora of Bhutan. Published by RGoB and RBGE. 2001. from Bhutan Biodiversity Portal)

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SK202NOV16-2016:ID : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (9)

Location: Champadevi, Nepal

Altitude: 6600 ft.

Date: 12 November 2016

Interesting plant … I can’t go beyond Asteraceae…

Happy to Identify the plant!

Rhynchospermum verticillatum Reinw. ex Reinw. (provisionally accepted name)

Asteraceae

No common name no Nepali name.

Aster verticillatus (Reinw.) Brouillet, Semple & Y. L. Chen

Syn : Rhynchospermum verticillatum Reinw.

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SK 2187 19 September 2019 : 13 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (3) – around 1500 kb each.

Location: Godawari, Lalitpur,, Nepal

Altitude: 1932 m.

Date: 08 August 2019

Habit : Wild

Asteraceae ?

Attachments (3) – 1 mb each.

Asteraceae. First thing came to mind was Tagetes minuta which it is not. Should be a close cousin

Thank you … I was guessed so. I shall check.

May be some Coreopsideae member like Bidens or Heliantheae member like Calyptocarpus vialis Less. Eleutheranthera ruderalis (Sw.) Sch.Bip. Sclerocarpus africanus Jacq. Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn. etc.

Aster verticillatus (Reinw.) Brouillet, Semple & Y. L. Chen

Syn : Rhynchospermum verticillatum Reinw.

Great find, … I would like to know about the journey you took to reach this ID !

What hints, clues you had!

I had spent about an hour on it, but, obviously without any result.

Me too. I spent a lot of time. I gave up because I thought that perhaps these flowers are not fully developed and hence I cant make decisions. I thought it was just me…

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