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Magnoliopsida
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
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Global Distribution
Tropical and Subtropical Africa and Asia
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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FG Creole: salade Madame Hector, taba taba. Surinam Arawak: siki siki dan kaboeji dikoro, wetede.
"Maharashtra: Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Satara Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara Kerala: All districts Tamil Nadu: All districts"
Tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa.
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"Robust herb, sparsely branched. Leaves alternate, radical ones a few, lyrate; cauline ones several, (ob)ovate, to 8 x 2.5 cm, chartaceous, base auricled, margin crenate, apex acute, crispate-pubescent. Corymbs lax. Capitula a few, homogamous, 1.7 cm wide. Receptacle convex, 7 mm wide; peduncle to 6 cm. Involucre 1-seriate. Phyllaries 6 mm. Florets bisexual. Pappus 1-seriate, 4.5 mm. Corolla tubular, 1.5 mm; lobes 5. Style branches exserted. Achenes 5-ribbed."
Plants 20–80 cm, glabrous or ± villous. Stems 1, erect or somewhat lax, simple or branched. Leaves mostly in proximal 1 / 2 ; usually petiolate; blades ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, mostly 5–12 × 1.5–4.5 cm (distal smaller, bractlike), margins often deeply lobed to lyrate-pinnatifid. Involucres urceolate to campanulate, 9–12 mm, relatively slender, lengths mostly 3–4 times diams. Phyllaries usually 8. Florets 15–30[–40], surpassing involucres by 0–1(–2) mm; corollas usually lavender, pinkish, or purplish, rarely reddish, lobes 0.5–0.7[–1.5] mm; style appendages 0–0.1 mm. 2n = 10.
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"Erect or diffuse herbs. Leaves radical and cauline; radical leaves 4-10 x 1-3 cm, lyrate-pinnatifid with large terminal lobes, semi-orbicular; cauline leaves small, obovate to spathulate. Heads homogamous, not rayed, 1-3 on long slender peduncles. Involucral bracts cylindric, uniseriate, 6-8 mm long, oblong-lanceolate. Florets bisexual. Corolla pink, 3-3.5 mm long, wider to the mouth, lobes 5. Stamens 5; anthers 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary c. 1.5 mm long; style-arms acute. Achenes 1-2 mm long, 5-ribbed, hispid. Pappus white silky, 5-6 mm long."
500-1700 m
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Habit: Herb
Cacalia sonchifolia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 835. 1753
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