IUCN Status
: Not Applicable
Author: Noopur Soni
Hello everyone. This is Noopur Soni, I'm a Junior Reasearch fellow at Kota University, Kota Rajasthan. I'm a botanist dedicated to exploring and documenting the rich floral diversity of Rajasthan, with a special focus on pteridophytes and wetland flora. As an environmental conservator and wildlife protector, I work towards habitat preservation and sustainable conservation strategies, ensuring the protection of Rajasthan’s unique biodiversity. Through my studies and fieldwork, I aim to contribute valuable insights into the flora of Rajasthan and promote awareness about its ecological significance.
- Marsh Para Cress
- Abheda pond, kota, Rajasthan
- Naturally grown
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Marsh Para Cress is an annual herb 10–100 cm tall. Stems are erect, scrambling or sometimes creeping, green or reddish, hairless or hairy. Leaves are lanceshaped, narrowly ovate or ovate, 1–8.5 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base flat, margins undulate to toothed, tip pointed to long-pointed, to acuminate, hairless to sparsely hairy. Leaft stalk is 0.2–3.2 cm long, narrowly winged. Flower-heads are yellow, solitary, radiate, 4–6 mm in diameter, 6–8 mm long, on stalks 1–6 cm long. Involucre is 2–4 mm long, of 1 series of green phyllaries. Ray florets only 4–7, pale yellow, 1.8–3.6 mm long, the ray 0.9–2.2 mm long. Disc florets many, yellow to orange- yellow, 1–1.6 mm long. Achenes are 1.2–1.8 mm long, ciliated, producing pappus of 2–4 bristles, 0.1–0.7 mm long. Marsh Para Cress is almost pantropic in distribution.
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