Literature for Emilia sonchifolia Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. Literature for Emilia sonchifolia var. javanica Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. Literature for Emilia sonchifolia var. sonchifolia Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
Asteraceae -- The Sunflower Family	Bibliography
Emilia sonchifolia

General Information
Distribution	Native to eastern and southern Asia and western Pacific.
Habit	Similar to Emelia coccinea and E. fosbergii, except plants usually more slender and branched.
Leaves	Leaves usually lyrate pinnatifid and dentate, the lower ones usually pinnately lobed.
Flowers	Heads with involucre 2-4 times as high as wide, as long as corolla, consisting of ca. 8 bracts, usually 9-12 mm long; florets usually 20-40 per head, corollas lavender to pale purple, as long as the involucral bracts or scarcely surpassing them, the lobes 0.3-1.7 mm long.
Fruit	Achenes 3 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, 5-ribbed, ribs puberulous; pappus white, 8 mm long, bristles slender.
Chromosomes	2n = 10, 20, 30.
Contributor	Warren Wagner