Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S.Moore
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Authority
Smith, Albert C. 1967. Studies of Pacific Island plants, XVIII. New and noteworthy flowering plants from Fiji. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 37: 69-106.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - [No description provided.]
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Discussion
The cited specimens are from coarse or succulent herbs up to 1 m. high, naturalized along streams and on open gravel banks and rocky shores of rivers at altitudes of 20-400 m.; the florets and stigmas are dull yellow, distally tinged with bright or reddish orange. Crassocephalum crepidioides is now widely distributed from Africa to southern Asia and the Philippines; it extends in the Pacific eastward at least to New Guinea and Ponape, but apparently it has not been previously recorded from Fiji. Belcher (Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 43:13. 1956) has commented on the fact that in herbaria this weed is often confused with Erechtites hieracijolia (L.) Raf. ex DC.