Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore
Redflower Ragleaf / Sikandel (Bru.); Jukut jamalok (Indo.)
Description
Traditional Medicinal Uses
Ecology
Propagation
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Precaution
Annual erect, aromatic herb that can reach 1 m tall. Leaves are simple, oppositely arranged, sessile, thinly hairy or glabrous and pinnately lobed. Leaf blade is oblong or obovate-elliptic, acute or acuminate at apex, attenuate or cuneate at base with irregularly toothed or wavy margin. Stems are erect, soft, striped with parallel ridges and densely covered with hairs. Inflorescence a terminal floZer head. Flowers are small, yellowish-orange to reddish-brown and tubular. Fruit a hairy pink or brown achene that is covered with white silky pappus
Locally, the leaves are infused with warm water and can be taken for kidney stone.
It thrives along roadsides, near streams, on slopes and in waste places. It prefers moist but well-drained soil under full sunlight to partial shade.
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Native to tropical Africa.
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