• Family : Asteraceae
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
• Basionym : Aplotaxis auriculata DC.
• Synonym(s) : Carduus auriculatus Wall.; Cnicus auriculatus Wall.; Saussurea hypoleuca Spreng. ex DC.; Theodorea auriculata (DC.) Kuntze
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Himalaiella auriculata (DC.) Raab-Straube
• Common name : Eared-Leaf Saw-Wort
• Vernacular name : Kut, Kushtha (Sanskrit)
• Habit : Perennial shrub
• Habitat : Forest margins, plantations, grassy banks, swamp margins, gravels; 2700 - 4550 m. altitude
• Comments / notes : Shrubberies and open slopes
• Key identification features : An erect perennial with pinnately lobed leaves, and with usually solitary globular nodding long-stalked purple flower-heads
• Flower, Fruit : July-September
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Valley of Flowers
  • Sikkim : North Sikkim (Mangan) district,East Sikkim (Gangtok) district
  • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
  • Himachal Pradesh : Lahaul & Spiti district
• Native : Bhutan, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Himalaya to South Tibet
• Literature : Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 160; GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 3. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 1442; Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 205; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 1. Published BSI: 407
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Saussurea auriculata. Downloaded on 7 July 2022.

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