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Corymbose Ragwort
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Corymbose Ragwort
P Native Photo: Kiranraj R.
Common name: Corymbose Ragwort
Botanical name: Cissampelopsis corymbosa    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Senecio corymbosus, Staehelina corymbosa

Corymbose Ragwort is a climbing shrub, with stem covered with reddish-yellow woolly hairs. Leaves are 6-8 x 6-8 cm, broadly ovate, tip tapering, base heart-shaped, 5-7 ribbed, hairless above, distantly minutely toothed; leaf-stalk 3-4 cm long. Flower-heads are 9 x 6 mm, in woolly panicles, in leaf-axils or at branch-ends. Bracts are in 1 series, 6 x 1.5 mm, oblong, with thick midrib, hairless. Florets are 7 mm long; petals pointed, yellow; anthers tailed at base. Seedpods are oblong, hairless, brown; pappus 7 mm long. Corymbose Ragwort is is found in Peninsular India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam. Flowering: March-November.

Identification credit: Kiranraj R. Photographed on Ooty-Kotagiri road, Tamil Nadu.

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