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Wollastonia biflora

Botanic Family

Asteraceae

Author

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Common Names

• Sarunei (Malaysia)
• Serenah (Malaysia)
• Sunai Laut (Malaysia)
• Kidachi-hama-guruma (Japan)
• Tokiwa-hama-guruma (Japan)
• Luan hua peng qi ju (pinyin)
• Mile-a-minute
• Beach Sunflower
• Daun Songa (Malaysia)
• Lalang-kapan (Indonesia)
• Sernai (Indonesia)
• Pokok Serunai (Indonesia)
• Serunai Laut (Indonesia)
• Seremai (Indonesia)
• Seruni (Indonesia)
• Bunga Batang (Saruni-Indonesia)
• Agonoi (Pilippines
• Agunoi (Philippines)
• Anoioi (Philippines
• Hagonoi (Philippines)
• Lagoron (Philippines
• Lahunai (Philippines)
• Palunag (Philippines)
• Palunai (Philippines)
• Salonai (Philippines
• Rau Mui (Vietnam)
• Verba de Maluco (Spanish)
• Sea Daisy

Geographical Habitats

• Queensland
• New South Wales
• Norfolk Island
• Northern Territory - Australia
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Caroline Islands
• Chagos Archipelago
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Xizang Yunnan - China
• Christmas Island
• Cocos Islands
• Comoros
• Cook Islands
• Fiji
• Gilbert Islands
• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands - India
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Islands - Japan
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Marshall Islands
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• New Caledonia
• New Hebrides
• Niue
• Bismarck Archipelago - Papua New Guinea. Philippines
• Samoa
• Singapore
• Natal - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Tonga
• Tubuai Island
• Tuvalu
• Vietnam
• Wallis-Futuna Islands

Natural Habitats

• Tidal areas
• coastal
• hedgerows
• wasteland
• dunes
• mangroves
• coconut plantations
• riversides
• secondary forest
• rain forest.

Flowering Times

• May-Oct (Japan)
• rainy & cold seasons (India)
• Jan (New Guinea) Apr-Jul (New Hebrides)

Fruiting Times

• Jan (New Guinea)

Scandent shrubby hairy scrambling perennial herb with strigose stems. Serrate strigose leaves to 150mm x 70mm. Terminal solitary heads to 30mm wide of orange-yellow flowers to 15mm across with pubescent bracts, yellow corolla to 13mm x 4.5mm, 2 to 3 toothed, 5-lobed yellow or yellowish-brown disc florets, 6-15 3-toothed ray flowers to 12mm long. Hairy achenes to 3.5mm x 2.5mm, coarsely strigose toward the tip. Scandent strigose annual subshrub straggling to climbing with glabrescent stems, dentate strigose leaves 76mm x 45mm hairy on both surfaces, axillary & terminal cymes or corymbs of bright yellow flowers to 25mm diameter 5mm long or in terminal axillary pairs or solitary, corolla tube with 5 lobes, glabrous achenes 4mm x 2.5mm

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOMP
• GBS
• FOJ
• FOC
• Mangrove
• FI
• Elmer
• F Indochine
• FNWNG
• FOTA
• JAA
• Wiart 2
• MAN