WorldFloraDB - Sphagneticola calendulacea

Characteristics

Stems prostrate with ascending tips, elongate, rooting from lower nodes, appressed pilose. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade linear-oblong to lanceolate, 2-10 cm × 6-20 mm, papery, appressed pilose on both surfaces, base narrowed, margin sparsely mucronulate-serrulate, apex acute. Capitula 2-2.5 cm wide, solitary on erect branches; peduncle 6-12 cm; involucre hemispheric, 8-9 mm; phyllaries 5, subequal in length, 1-seriate, oblong, shortly appressed pubescent, apex acute or sometimes obtuse. Ray florets 1-seriate, yellow; corolla 9-11 × 3-3.5 mm, 2-or 3-dentate. Disk corolla 4-4.5 mm, 5-lobed. Achenes obovoid, ca. 3.5 × 1.5-2 mm, coarsely hairy at tip; pappus vase-or cup-shaped. Fl. Mar-Sep.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.5

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

-

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

Open, waste places at sea level. On paddy ridges, in grassy fields and moist lowland depressions in the north, also common in littoral areas.

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity	-
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	medicinal
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	Hair loss (leaf), Cough (leaf), Headache (leaf), Liver diseases (leaf), General tonic for rejuvenation (leaf), Skin diseases (leaf), Wound healing (leaf), Uterine diseases (root), Alopecia (unspecified), Cephalgia (unspecified), CNS (unspecified), Cough (unspecified), Hairblack (unspecified), Hemorrhage (unspecified), Menorrhagia (unspecified), Skin (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Alterative (unspecified), Dyspepsia (unspecified), Intestine (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Abdominal pain (unspecified), Hair loss (unspecified), Anemia (unspecified), Anthelmintics (unspecified), Antipyretics (unspecified), Aphrodisiacs (unspecified), Cardiotonic agents (unspecified), Colic (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Earache (unspecified), Disorder of ejaculation (unspecified), Elephantiasis (unspecified), Eye diseases (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hair diseases (unspecified), Headache (unspecified), Helminthiasis (unspecified), Hematuria (unspecified), Hepatomegaly (unspecified), Hypohidrosis (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Night blindness (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified), Splenomegaly (unspecified), Ulcer (unspecified), Urination disorders (unspecified), Uterine diseases (unspecified), Wound healing (unspecified), Wounds and injuries (unspecified), Deobstruent (unspecified), Abdominal pain (whole plant), Hair loss (whole plant), Liver diseases (whole plant), Menorrhagia (whole plant), Splenomegaly (whole plant), Deobstruent (whole plant), Hair loss (whole plant excluding root), Anemia (whole plant excluding root), Asthma (whole plant excluding root), Colic (whole plant excluding root), Cough (whole plant excluding root), Diarrhea (whole plant excluding root), Fatigue (whole plant excluding root), Fever (whole plant excluding root), Filariasis (whole plant excluding root), Headache (whole plant excluding root), Heart diseases (whole plant excluding root), Helminthiasis (whole plant excluding root), Hemorrhoids (whole plant excluding root), Jaundice (whole plant excluding root), Splenomegaly (whole plant excluding root), Ulcer (whole plant excluding root)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

Images

Sphagneticola calendulacea unspecified picture

Distribution

Conservation status

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:993278-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000072506
COL ID	4YT4Q
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	920251
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Solidago chinensis Sphagneticola calendulacea Complaya chinensis Seruneum calendulaceum Wedelia calendulacea Polymnia benghalensis Wedelia zollingeriana Wedelia bengalensis Jaegeria calendulacea Thelechitonia chinensis Polymnia calendulacea Verbesina calendulacea Wedelia chinensis

WorldFloraDB 2024

Sphagneticola calendulacea (L.) Pruski

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Sphagneticola