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Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass. ex Spachwfo-0000072121

Hist. Nat. Vég. (Spach) 10: 181 (1841).— Chrysanthemum coronarium L., Sp. Pl. 2: 890. 1753; Kerr, Fl. Siam. 2(3): 282. 1936; Backer & Bakh.f., Fl. Java 2: 420. 1965; Shih & Fu, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 76(1): 22. 1983.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Annual herb, to 1.2 m tall; stems erect, striate, glaucous, often densely leafy. Leaves oblong in outline, 3.5–7 by 1–4 cm, pinnate-partite, bipinnatifid or serrulate, base with a few, narrow segments, often with a few teeth, both surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences in large corymbs. Capitula radiate, at most to 7 cm diam. at flowering; involucres hemispherical, ca 8 by to 2 cm; phyllaries 4-seriate, imbricate, more-or-less oblong, margins broadly scarious; receptacle slightly convex, naked. Ray florets 12–15 per capitulum; rays oblong, 1–2 by 5–8 mm, apex truncate and emarginate. Disc florets many per capitulum; corollas tubular, 4.5–5.5 mm long, green, limb yellow. Achenes more-or-less turbinate, 2–3 mm long, densely glandular between ribs, 6-ribbed, with 3 wings in ray floret, 10-ribbed, with 1 wing in disc floret.

Thailand : CENTRAL: Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (Bangkok).

Distribution : Native of the Mediterranean region, now cultivated elsewhere.

Ecology : Cultivated only.

Vernacular : Nga-sai (งาไซ)(Chinese, Songkhla, Surat Thani); phak khi khwai (ผักขี้ควาย)(Northern); phak tang o (ผักตังโอ๋)(Central).

Uses: Cultivation as a garden ornamental and a vegetable.