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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Struchium sparganophora'' (PROSEA)}}
<big>''[[Struchium sparganophora]]'' (L.) O. Kuntze</big>
__NOTOC__
:Family: Compositae
== Synonyms ==
''Ethulia sparganophora'' L., ''Sparganophorus sparganophora'' (L.) Jeffrey, ''Sparganophorus vaillantii'' Cranz.
== Vernacular names ==
*Portebandeau (Fr)
*Indonesia: awa lanaru, pacar hutang (Java).
== Distribution ==
Originated in tropical America; introduced and widely naturalized elsewhere and now pantropical.
== Uses ==
Ploughed in as green manure in rice fields. It is eaten by cattle. In Africa, the leaves are eaten as a vegetable.
== Observations ==
Herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaves alternate, subsessile or shortly petioled, elliptical or oblong-obovate, 5-16 cm long, sub-entire to shallowly crenate-serrate, glandular. Inflorescence an axillary, sessile head, 1-8 together, small, many-flowered, semi-globose; flowers all tubular; corolla white or pale violet; anthers sagittate; pappus an irregularly dentate cup. ''S. sparganophora'' is a frequent weed of slightly shaded, moist sites, roadsides, river banks, and waste places, up to 700 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
8, 27, 82, 86, 101.
== Authors ==
M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen
[[Category:Auxiliary plants (PROSEA)]]
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Struchium sparganophora'' (PROSEA)}}
<big>''[[Struchium sparganophora]]'' (L.) O. Kuntze</big>
__NOTOC__
:Family: Compositae
== Synonyms ==
''Ethulia sparganophora'' L., ''Sparganophorus sparganophora'' (L.) Jeffrey, ''Sparganophorus vaillantii'' Cranz.
== Vernacular names ==
*Portebandeau (Fr)
*Indonesia: awa lanaru, pacar hutang (Java).
== Distribution ==
Originated in tropical America; introduced and widely naturalized elsewhere and now pantropical.
== Uses ==
Ploughed in as green manure in rice fields. It is eaten by cattle. In Africa, the leaves are eaten as a vegetable.
== Observations ==
Herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaves alternate, subsessile or shortly petioled, elliptical or oblong-obovate, 5-16 cm long, sub-entire to shallowly crenate-serrate, glandular. Inflorescence an axillary, sessile head, 1-8 together, small, many-flowered, semi-globose; flowers all tubular; corolla white or pale violet; anthers sagittate; pappus an irregularly dentate cup. ''S. sparganophora'' is a frequent weed of slightly shaded, moist sites, roadsides, river banks, and waste places, up to 700 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
8, 27, 82, 86, 101.
== Authors ==
M.S.M. Sosef & L.J.G. van der Maesen
[[Category:Auxiliary plants (PROSEA)]]
