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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb. Stem woody near the base, branching near the top; branches ribbed or angular. Leaves linear-elliptic to narrowly lanceolate; margin subentire or serrated. Capitula subspherical in branched terminal clusters. Florets mauve-whitish to purple-blue. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | conyzoides: resembling the genus Conyza |
| Habitat: | In wet soil along rivers and swamps, often among reeds. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1100 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia, Egypt and tropical Africa and from tropical Asia eastwards to Indochina |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
| Growth form: | A |
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| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 36. (Includes a picture). |
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