Sigesbeckia orientalis L.
Annual glandular-pubescent aromatic herb up to 1 m. tall, sparingly branched. Lvs opp. on petioles up to c. 1 cm. long; lamina lanceolate to ovate-triangular to rhomboid, 3-10 cm. long, membr., irregularly toothed or lobed, acuminate. Capitula c. 6-8 mm. diam., in lax panicles. Outer phyll. glandular, narrow-spathulate; inner shorter. Scales of receptacle clasping achenes. Florets yellow; of disk tubular, perfect; of ray shortly ligulate, pistillate. Pappus 0, outer achenes muricate.
DIST.: K., N. Coastal to lowland waste places.
FL.- FT. 12-3.
Accepted by Oliver (T.N.Z.I. 42, 1910, 172).
Very doubtfully indigenous, except perhaps in Kermadec Is, but collected by Solander.
