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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