WorldFloraDB - Emilia praetermissa

Characteristics

Herbs, annual. Stems erect or ascending, to 140 cm tall, glabrous or pilose. Basal and lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 1.5-3 cm, in basal leaves unwinged and exauriculate, in lower stem leaves winged and basally auriculate; blade broadly ovate, 4-6 × 4.5-6 cm, ± pilose, base subcordate, margin dentate, apically obtuse; median and upper stem leaves sessile, pandurate to triangular, becoming smaller upward. Capitula up to 7 in lax corymbs, rarely solitary. Involucres cylindric, ca. 10 × 3-4 mm; phyllaries 9-12. Florets distinctly exceeding involucre; corollas cream, yellowish, or pallid orange, ca. 8 mm; lobes ca. 2 mm, tinged purple or orange. Achenes ca. 3 mm, pubescent. Pappus ca. 7 mm. 2n = 20.

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An erect herb. It grows 1 m high. It grows each year from seed. The lower stem leaves have ear shaped lobes at the base. The leaves are broadly oval and 4-6 cm long by 5-6 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. The lower leaves have stalks and the upper leaves do not. Leaves get smaller up the stem.

Pale flesh-coloured florets in heads about 1/2 in. long

An erect herb 2-3 ft. high

Life form	annual
Growth form	herb
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Mature height (meter)	1.0
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Environment

Open ground in the forest zone, and also commonly found in brackish mangrove swamps.

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A tropical plant. It grows in brackish swamps near the coast.

In clearings in forest.

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Usage

Uses	food gene source medicinal
Edible	leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	8 - 15
Germination temperacture (C°)	21
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