English: Coat Buttons

Mandarin: 羽芒菊 (yu mang ju)

Portuguese: Erva-de-touro

Kingdom: Plantae (2089)

  Phylum: Magnoliophyta (1996)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (1683)

      Order: Asterales (176)

        Family: Asteraceae (176) (family description)

          Genus: Tridax (1)

           Epithet: procumbens L. (2)

Synonym: Balbisia canescens Rich.

canescens => greyish-white, hoary

procumbens => prostrate or lying down

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow, white

Check for Tridax procumbens at The Plant List, GBIF or IPNI

• [386] Tridax procumbens - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER)
• [1910] Tridax procumbens - Flora of China @ efloras.org

• [12] Dokosi, O.B. (1998): Herbs of Ghana. Ghana University Press, Accra, Ghana.
• [13] Sauerborn E., Sauerborn J. (1985): Wichtige Unkrautarten der Tropen und Subtropen. Verlag Josef Margraf, Weikersheim, Germany.

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