Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.

หางปลาช่อน Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. ex Wight COMPOSITAE (ASTERACEAE) 3, 4

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Descriptions :
Herb, with erect, long white hairs, especially on petioles and youngs leaves; leaves alternate, variable in shape, often spatulate, sometimes lyrate, shallowly dentate, with decurrent lamina; bracts variable in shape and size, sessile, narrowly triangular or narrowly elliptic, often shallowly dentate, with acute, apiculate apex and sagittate or non-sagittate base; infloresence a cyme of several heads; heads pedunculate, cylindrical, except widened at base; involucre uniseriate, bracts connate; pales (receptacular bracts) lacking; flowers all disc flowers; pappus of hairs; corolla a narrow tube with 5 lobes, whitish and light violet; stamens 5; anthers introrse; connective with apical appendage; base not sagittate; ovary inferior, cylindrical, angled, with 5 longitudinal rows of glandular hairs; style filiform; stigma with 2 lobes.