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Senecio scandens

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don

Common Names

• Scrambling Ragwort
• Ragwort Vine
• Qian li guang(Pinyin)
• Tsing-daw (Myanmar)
• Taikin-giku (Japan)
• Miyuki-giku (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Cambodia
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Assam
• Tamil Nadu - India
• Sulawesi - Indonesia
• Honshu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Riverbeds
• forests
• thickets
• shrubland
• streamsides
• evergreen forest
• coastal.

Flowering Times

• Aug-Apr (China)
• Jan-Feb (Thailand)
• Nov-Mar (Japan)
• Dec-Apr (India)

Fruiting Times

• Feb-Mar (Thailand)
• Dec-Apr (India)

Glabrous woody based evergreen twining herbaceous scrambler to 5m, with somewhat zigzag slightly villous sometimes grooved stems, dentate glabrescent leaves or floccose beneath, to 100mm x 50mm, toothed and lower leaves often lobed. Terminal & axillary thyrses or panicles with slightly villous floral bracts, inferior bracts 1.5mm long, superior ones 6mm long, 15mm lemon-yellow to bright yellow flowers, 12-14 ray florest 9mm x 3.5mm, tube 4.5mm long, with 5 lobes. Hairy ribbed pubescent achenes 3mm long with dirty white pappus 3.5mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Plantsman Vol. 2 Pt. 3
• RHS A-Z
• NYBG
• Walden & Hu
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• IP
• eFlora of India
• de Candolle