• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (ASTER or SUNFLOWER FLOWER)
• Family (as per The Plant List) : Compositae
• Species : Conyza bonariensis
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Erigeron bonariensis L.
• Key identification features : A tall herb. Leaves are lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, coarsely srrate at the margin, 1-8 x acute at the apex. Heads are in long leafy panicles, involucre of bracts hairy. Ray florets purplish; disc florets are pale yellow. Achenes 1 mm long, subglabrous. Pappus yellowish, hairs 3 mm long.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : June-January
• Native : South America
• Comments : On hills above 800 m, sometimes a weed of cultivated land.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Distribution Locality : Yercaud Hills (Salem district), Parvathimalai Hills (T.V.M) (Tamil Nadu State); Anantagiri Hills (Visakhapatnam district), Chittoor district (Andhra Pradesh State); Koraput district (Odisha State)
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Conyza bonariensis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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