Gynura aurantiaca (Blume) DC.

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"Notes: Western Ghats, Naturalized, Native of Australia"

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National Distribution:
United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Distribution:

"Kerala: Pathanamthitta Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dindigul, Nilgiri, Theni, Tiruchchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar"

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Description:

Stems somewhat lax or clambering, branching, fleshy, conspicuously fuzzy-hairy (± velutinous to villous, crosswalls of hairs purplish). Leaves: petioles 0–3+ cm; blades 4–10(–15) × 2–5(–8) cm, margins raggedly toothed, faces ± velutinous to villous, hairs purplish. Heads 1–5. Calyculi: bractlets 3–6+ mm. Phyllaries 10–12+ mm, tips greenish or minutely darkened. Disc corollas yellow or orange to brick-red (drying purplish), 8–12+ mm; style-branch appendages orange, 1–2 mm. Cypselae glabrous; pappi 10–12 mm. 2n = 20.

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Diagnostic:

Habit: Herb

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Synonym:

Cacalia aurantiaca Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind., 908. 1826

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National NatureServe Conservation Status:
United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

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NatureServe Conservation Status:

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked

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Comments:

Gynura aurantiaca is a tender pot-plant that is sometimes grown outdoors. It is marginally established in the flora, persisting as an escape from cultivation in southern Florida. It may be encountered elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. The orange, filiform appendages of the style branches are distinctive; the flowers are reported to be unpleasantly scented.

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