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Gynura procumbens

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Loureiro) Merrill

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Borneo
• Central African Republic
• Guangdong
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Sichuan
• Yunnan - China
• Gabon
• India
• Java- Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Malaysia
• Nigeria
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Streamside forest
• lakeside
• swampy jungle
• montane areas
• forest
• secondary vegetation
• lowland & hill forest
• streamside thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr

Fruiting Times

• Apr

Glabrous scandent to 5m, erect or procumbent herb with purple brown-hairy striate stems. Denticulate fleshy glabrous leaves to 90mm x 25mm with purplish hairs, purplish margins. Terminal or axillary 7-10 flowered pendulous corymbs , cymes or racemes with bracts to 20mm long, yellow-orange flowerheads to 15mm with purple tips, corolla 10mm long, glabrous. Puberulous or strigose 10-ribbed achenes to 6mm with white puberulous pappus.

Further References

• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• FS
• F Indochine
• FOMP
• GBS
• Merrill
• Wiart 2