But description in the publication says *Ray florets a few, shortly radiate
for *Duhaldea eupatorioides. Also see the image of it in the publication,
which is closer to our images in eFI site.
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With regards,
J. M. Garg

On Mon, 25 Dec, 2023, 22:03 Tabish, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Garg ji for the detailed comparison.
>    But I do not think the images at the eFI link
> <https://efloraofindia.com/2021/06/17/duhaldea-eupatorioides/> correctly
> represent the species Duhaldea eupatorioides. The flowers seem to have
> almost no ray florets. I am attaching an image of Duhaldea eupatorioides
> from this paper
> <https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.282.1.7>.
> Another paper summarizes Duhaldea eupatorioides as follows:
>  Notes: This species is similar to D. cuspidata, but differs in much
> stouter habit, shorter and stouter petioles, more rigid leaves with much
> reticulated nervation beneath and narrower ligules.
> Comparing with the images of Duhaldea cuspida
> <https://efloraofindia.com/2012/05/21/inula-cuspidata/>, I feel
> Sawmliana's images fit the description of Duhaldea eupatorioides reasonably
> well.
>    Tabish
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> On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 1:25 PM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Tabish ji,
>> I do not think so.
>> Pl. see
>> https://efloraofindia.com/2021/06/17/duhaldea-eupatorioides/
>>
>> Pl. see detailed description as given below:
>>
>> Description from Flora of China
>> <http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250097799>:
>> *Synotis cappa* (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) C. Jeffrey & Y. L. Chen
>>
>>
>> *Duhaldea eupatorioides* (Wall. ex DC.) Anderb. as per The genus
>> Duhaldea (Asteraceae) in India
>> <https://rheedea.in/storages/submission/file/1479996550.pdf> (2020)
>>
>> Subshrubs or shrubby herbs, rhizomatous. *Stems erect, to 150 cm tall,
>> often flexuous, densely lanate or arachnoid-tomentose, ± glabrescent when
>> old,* simple or usually branching above in synflorescences, leafless in
>> lower part at anthesis.
>>
>> *Leaves petiolate or sometimes subsessile; petiole to 10 mm, stout,
>> densely tomentose, base often auriculate; *blade broadly to narrowly
>> obovate-oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 10-28 × 4-8 cm, *papery,
>> abaxially densely to sparsely fulvous pubescent on veins and densely to
>> sparsely whitish tomentose, *sometimes ± glabrescent, adaxially shortly
>> densely to sparsely pubescent and sometimes thinly white arachnoid to
>> subglabrous, pinnately veined, *lateral veins 12-28, *arcuate-ascending,
>> base attenuate, margin finely to coarsely mucronulate-serrate, apically
>> acuminate. Upper leaves and leaves of branches lanceolate or
>> linear-lanceolate, gradually smaller.
>>
>> *Capitula radiate, usually numerous, arranged in terminal and axillary
>> usually 10-20-headed dense compound corymbs or thyrses;* peduncles 5-10
>> mm, densely tomentose, with a few linear or linear-subulate bracts.
>>
>> Involucres narrowly campanulate, 5-7 × 2-4 mm, calyculate; bracts of
>> calyculus ca. 8, linear-lanceolate, 3-5 mm, apically acuminate; phyllaries
>> 8-13, linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm wide, herbaceous, densely tomentose,
>> margin narrowly scarious, apically obtuse to acute and puberulent.
>>
>> *Ray florets ca. 8; corolla tube ca. 2.5 mm; lamina yellow, ca. 3.5 × 1
>> mm, 4-veined, 3-denticulate*. Disk florets 11-17; corolla yellow, ca. 5
>> mm, with ca. 1.5 mm tube and funnelform limb; lobes ovate-oblong, ca. 1.5
>> mm, apically acute. Anthers ca. 2.5 mm; anther tails slightly exceeding
>> antheropodia; appendages ovate-oblong; antheropodia rather slender, basally
>> slightly dilated. Style branches ca. 1 mm, fringed with short papillae,
>> terminal tuft not evident. Achenes ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 5
>> mm.
>>
>> Fl. Oct-Jan.
>>
>>
>>
>> Forest margins, thickets, streamsides, meadows; 1500-2300 m.
>>
>>
>> Guangxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, Nepal, N
>> Thailand].
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Stout shrubs, 1–3 m tall.
>> *Stem pubescent, terete; branches brownish-purple.*
>>
>>
>> *Leaves spirally arranged, rigid, leathery, *shortly petioled; lamina
>> elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-acuminate, 5–25 × 1.5–7.5 cm, *coriaceous,*
>>  *irregularly toothed,* cuneate or rounded at base, *dark green above,
>> scabrid, pale green below, pubescent, dense towards nerves, sometimes
>> glandular, lateral nerves prominent, shorter, with much-reticulated
>> nervation beneath.*
>>
>>
>>
>> Corymbs polycephalous.* Heads terminal or in upper axillary panicles;* 
>> capitula
>> crowned with short peduncles, 0.5–1.0 cm in diam.
>>
>>
>> Involucral bracts 2–4 × 0.5–1.0 mm long, 4-seriate, lax, imbricate,
>> lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, brownish, villous to velutinous, sometimes
>> glandular at tip.
>>
>>
>> *Ray florets a few, shortly radiate. *Disc florets tubular, 5- toothed.
>> Cypselae narrowly obovate–oblong, 1.5– 2.0 × 0.25–0.5 mm, yellowish brown,
>> sparsely white pubescent, 8–10-ribbed. Pappus uniseriate, bristles 22–24,
>> 4–5 mm long, cream-golden.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Flowering and fruiting from August to February.
>>
>> Habitat: Grows on rocky slopes, between 1700– 1800 m elevations.
>>
>> Distribution: Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan,
>> Thailand and Vietnam.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 at 21:27, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think it is not Duhaldea cuspidata because of Duhaldea cuspidata has
>>> stalked leaves, and the leaves in this plant are virtually stalkless. 
>>> Synotis
>>> cappa appears close but if you look carefully, in Synotis cappa the ray
>>> florets are longer than the central disk of the flower-heads. In this plant
>>> the ray florets are much shorter than the central disk.
>>> I think it is *Duhaldea eupatorioides*. The structure of the
>>> inflorescence and the leaves agree with the illustration attached here, and
>>> to the description in this paper
>>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342591403_The_genus_Duhaldea_Asteraceae_in_India>.
>>>
>>>    Tabish
>>>
>>> On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 4:02:25 PM UTC+5:30 J.M. Garg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pl. see
>>>> at *Synotis* *cappa* (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen
>>>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/12/11/synotis-cappa/>
>>>> --
>>>> With regards,
>>>> J. M. Garg
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 11 Dec, 2023, 10:55 Mandru Ramesh Chowdary, <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Duhaldea cuspidata.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 10 Dec, 2023, 4:57 pm J.M. Garg, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This appears more closer to images and details at *Synotis* *cappa* 
>>>>>> (Buch.-Ham.
>>>>>> ex D.Don) C.Jeffrey & Y.L.Chen
>>>>>> <https://efloraofindia.com/2020/12/11/synotis-cappa/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>>>> From: M Sawmliana <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 23:29
>>>>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:312460] MS Dec,2018/09 Asteraceae (Duhaldea
>>>>>> sp.?) for Id.
>>>>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Location : Tan, Mizoram
>>>>>> Altitude : 1600 - 1,900 m.
>>>>>> Date : 06-12-2018
>>>>>> Habit : Shrub
>>>>>> Habitat : Wild
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With regards,
>>>>>> M.Sawmliana
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