Botanical name: Senecio bombayensis    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Senecio grahamii Hook.f. [Illeg.], Doronicum reticulatum Wight [Illeg.]

Mumbai Golden Daisy is a gregarious plant of the Western Ghats which makes a splash during its mass flowering with the advent of monsoons. It is seen on hill-slopes, old roofs and forks of trees. It is an erect much branched herb, about 80 cm tall. Flower-heads are yellow, 2-3 cm across, borne in lax corymbs on slender flower-cluster-stalks. Ray flowers (apparently petals) are strap-shaped, 10-13, shortly 3 toothed. Disk flowers are slightly longer than the achenes, paleaceous. Inovlucral bracts 12-24. Pappus of ray florets absent. Stems and branches are grooved and angled. Leaves are ovate or rhomboid-ovate, pointed at tip white woolly below, margins coarsely irregularly toothed, 4.5 x 2 cm. Leaf-stalks are variable at length. Ears usually present, at or a little above the base. Seedpods are oblong, ribbed rough, 2 mm long.

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