Emilia prenanthoidea

DC. Prodr. vi. 303 ; erect, glabrous, rarely scabrid, slender, lowest leaves small ovate petioled or 0, all or upper sessile linear-oblong obtuse or acute nearly entire deeply sagittately or broadly auricled at the base, invol. bracts shorter than the scarlet flowers, style-arms dilated at the tip, achenes glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 176. E. angustifolia, DC. l. c. Cacalia angustifolia and teres, Wall. Cat. 3163, 3164.

SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. ; common. — DISTRIB. Upper Birma.

A very slender species, 1-3 ft. high, with much the habit of E. flammea, but with few or 0 radical leaves, and with glabrous achenes. I have seen but two specimens of the scabrid form; they were found by Dr. Thomson and myself near the Ongot river in Khasia.

(Attributions- IBIS Flora (Flora of British India))
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Plants from Northeast Tour 2017- Emilia for specific id, Cherrapunji : 10 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (8)

emilia sonchifolia

Please Check Emilia sonchifolia Sir

Thanks … for forwarding, thanks to … for their opinion… But I am sure this cannot be Emilia sonchifolia

Eight species of Emilia are known in India as per BSI document.
E. alstonii (Karnataka)
E. exserta (Karnataka)
E. javanica (Eastern, Northern, North East and Peninsular India)
E. prenanthoidea (Eastern Himalaya and NE India)
E. ramulosa (SW Ghats)
E. scabra (NE & Paninsular India)
E. sonchifolia (Throughout India)
E. zeylanica (NE & Peninsular India).
But this species is quite interesting with no petiolate radical leaves and almost entire cauline leaves. A difficult one (due to morphological variation) or something new?
Expert opinion is needed.

Emilia prenanthoidea DC. !

Emilia prenanthoidea DC. and Emilia zeylanica C.B.Clarke are difficult to differentiate.

Thanks Sir ji, I think I should retire.

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“Thanks, …

I think it more closer to Emilia prenanthoidea (phyllaries 10 as per Flora of China). Pl. see long phillaries as per GBIF– specimen. (Involucres cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 6-11 × 2-3 mm; phyllaries 10, oblong, 6-12 × 1-2 mm, shorter than florets, glabrous, margin scarious).”

• This specimen of E. prenanthoidea, from Meghalaya, India, clearly shows phyllaries, except in one flower almost equal to flowers – https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1988984976
• In the uploaded pictures some hair can be seen on phyllaries !!! But I agree that it is ignorable because modern lenses can capture fine hairs on totally bald men heads too 😀

“I did not find the description of Emilia zeylanica on net, but phyllaries appears to be less and short as per POWO and GBIF– specimen. “

• As per FBI both spp are almost identical – I agree that is outdated literature
• You cannot say “…  phyllaries appears to be less and short…” = did anybody count them? did anybody take measurements?
• Attached here is a screenshot, with modification, of the GBIF plate you referred in your above statement of E. zeylanica.

Yet, I subscribe to your and … suggestion, only because of the location of the specimen, not on a single point of your analysis.

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