Drooping Golden Daisy is an annual, erect herb, 1-6 ft tall,
velvet-hairy. Flower-heads are 1.2-1.8 cm across, golden, drooping, in
sparse corymbs, carried on slender flower-cluster-stalks. Ray florets
are 20-40, blade yellow, linear, longer than involucre, tip 3-toothed.
Phyllaries are linear, apiculate, velvet-hairy; outer ones scale-like.
Leaf-stalks are very short; leaf blade oblong-lanceshaped,
5-7.5 × 2-2.5 cm, both surfaces shortly velvet-hairy, base narrower,
margin shallowly minutely toothed or toothed, rarely entire, tip pointed
or tapering. Seedpods are oblong, about 0.6 mm, sparsely velvet-hairy.
Pappus of disk florets few, brown, 3-4 mm. Drooping Golden Daisy is
found on grassy slopes, at altitudes of about 1500 m, from Nepal to
East Himalaya, China South-Central, Thailand, and Western Ghats.
Identification credit: Navendu Pagé, Tabish
Photographed at Vasota fort & Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra.
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