| General Information |
| Distribution | Native to New World tropical regions.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Creeping, mat forming, perennial herb; stems rounded, rooting at the nodes, 1‒3(‒4+) dm long, flowering portions ascending, coarsely strigose to spreading hirsute, sometimes subglabrous.
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Leaves
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Leaves sessile; blade fleshy, coriaceous, usually 4‒9 cm long, (1.5‒)2‒5 cm wide, irregularly toothed or serrate, usually with a pair of lateral lobes.
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Flowers
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Heads with peduncle 3‒10 cm long; involucre campanulate hemispherical, ca. 1 cm high; chaffy bracts lanceolate, rigid; ray florets often 8‒13 per head, rays 6‒15 mm long; disk corollas 4‒5 mm long; pappus a crown of short fimbriate scales.
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Fruit
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Achenes tuberculate, 4-5 mm long.
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Chromosomes
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2n = ca. 40, 50 52, 56.
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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