Alien
Annual herb ; up to 1 m tall , hispidulous in all parts . Stems erect , branched , leafy , scabrid-pilose . Leaves opposite , up to 10 x 4 cm , narrowly ovate , basally attenuate into a petiolate base and apically acuminate , margins serrate ; petiole 1 cm , pilose . Inflorescences inconspicuously radiate , on wiry , several cms long peduncles axillary and at the end of the branches . Flowers white ; ray flowers few , pistillate ; disc flowers perfect , tubular . Fruit achenes , 4–6 mm long , slender-obpyramidal , 3-angular , blackish . Seeds pappus , tiny , barbellate bristles from a small corona in the centre of the truncate achene apex . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Acmella linnaei Cass.
Acmella mauritiana Pers.
Bidens acmella (L.) Lam.
Ceratocephalus acmella (L.) Kuntze
Coreopsis acmella (L.) K.Krause
Pyrethrum acmella (L.) Medik.
Spilanthes acmella (L.) L.
Verbesina acmella L.
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Paniculated Spot Flower
Para Cress
Para Cress Flower
Annual Para Cress
Paraguay Cress
Spot Flower
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Patzelt, A. Pysek, P. Pergl, J. Van Kleunen, M. (2022). Alien flora of Oman: invasion status, taxonomic composition, habitats, origin, and pathways of introduction. Doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02711-4. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
