| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Asteraceae (Compositae) |
| Synonym | Monosis wightiana DC. |
| Synonym_2 | Vernonia monosis Benth.ex Clarke |
| Local Name | Kodavari |
| Local Name 2 | Malambaruva |
| Local Name 3 | Karana |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, bark grey, mottled with white and green, rough, marked with vertical cracks, exfoliations small, squarish, outer bark dead, corky. Branchlets densely brown silky tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, estipulate; petiole 7-21 mm long, stout, densely pubescent, grooved above; lamina 10-29 x 4-10 cm, obovate, elliptic-obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate; base acute, obtuse, cuneate or attenuate; apex acuminate; margin entire or distantly serrate, glabrous above and densely brown tomentose beneath; lateral nerves 8-13 pairs, parallel, prominent, raised beneath; flowers purple, in heads arranged in terminal tomentose panicles; fruit an achene, 2 mm long, 10-ribbed with glands in between. |
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