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Artemisia pallens; photograph Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAYercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Artemisia pallens Wall. ex Besser

Asteraceae · India

No habitat climate
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Summary

Artemisia pallens is an aromatic herb, in genus of small herbs or shrubs, xerophytic in nature. Commonly known as dhavanam from the Sanskrit name दमनक (damanaka), (Tamil: மரிக்கொழுந்து, தவணம், Marathi: दवणा, Kannada: ದವನ). The flowers are racemose panicles, bear numerous small yellow flower heads or capitula, but the silvery white silky covering of down gives the foliage a grey or white appearance.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Artemisia pallens", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIndia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 42 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Yercaud-elango, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Sahyadri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Artemisia 86 in the reference

Artemisia abrotanum Artemisia abrotanum Southernwood Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевArtemisia absinthium Artemisia absinthium Wormwood Photo: CC BY-SA, Serdar ÖlezArtemisia adamsii Artemisia adamsii Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Urgamal MagsarArtemisia afra Artemisia afra African wormwood Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony RebeloArtemisia alba Artemisia alba White Mugwort Photo: CC BY, Matteo MartiniArtemisia alpina Artemisia alpina Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Илья РуденкоArtemisia annua Artemisia annua Sweet wormwood Photo: CC BY-SA, Josep GestiArtemisia anomala Artemisia anomala Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, 鄭雪雲Artemisia arborescens Artemisia arborescens Hedge artemisia Photo: CC BY, Anis DrisArtemisia arbuscula Artemisia arbuscula Sagebrush Photo: CC BY, James H. ThomasArtemisia argentea Artemisia argentea Madeira wormwood Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeArtemisia argyi Artemisia argyi Chinese mugwort Photo: CC BY, Repina Tatyana all 87 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Artemisia absinthii; Artemisia orientalis; Artemisia paniculata. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
Wall. ex Besser
Native to
India
Wild records
3 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 179911-1 is IPNI's record of Artemisia pallens Wall. ex DC., the same name; IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Artemisia pallens Wall. ex Besser (the item's: IPNI 179911-1, POWO 179911-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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