Cyanthillium cinereum explained

Cyanthillium cinereum (also known as little ironweed and poovamkurunnal or poovamkurunnila in Malayalam, and monara kudumbiya in Sinhalese) is a species of perennial plants in the sunflower family. The species is native to tropical Africa and to tropical Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.) and has become naturalized in Australia, Mesoamerica, tropical South America, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Cyanthillium cinereum is an annual herb up to 120 cm (4 feet) tall. It produces flat-topped arrays of numerous flower heads, each with pinkish or purplish disc florets but no ray florets.^[6] The species can be confused with Emilia sonchifolia, but the flower bracts of the latter are much longer and vase-shaped.

Cyanthillium cinereum has been used for smoking cessation in Thailand and other countries, and as relief for the common cold.^[7]

It used to be called Vernonia cinerea, but apparently there was a taxonomic update, sometime prior to early 2014.

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Open Source for Weed Assessment in Lowland Paddy Fields . 2013-09-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222030226/http://www.oswaldasia.org/species/v/venci/venci_en.html . 2014-02-22 . dead .
2. http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:630155 Atlas of Living Australia
3. Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
4. Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Duno de Stefano & I. M. Ramírez Morillo. 2010. Flora Ilustrada de la Peninsula Yucatán: Listado Florístico 1–326
5. García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
6. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242315954 Flora of North America, Cyanthillium cinereum (Linnaeus) H. Robinson
7. Efficacy of Vernonia cinerea for smoking cessation . Supakit . Wongwiwatthananukit . January 2009 . Journal of Health Research . 23 . 1 . 31–6 . . Bangkok, Thailand.