- Authors:
- Mansueto, Josel B, Sia,Isidro C, de la Pena, Mario
- Title:
- Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health - FOLK HEALING PRACTICES of SIQUIJOR ISLAND
- Source:
- Keywords:
- Family:
- Compositae
- Field_number:
- Herbarium_number:
- Geographic_area_of_collection:
- Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Cantabon
- Habitat:
- Open fields, grasslands and waste areas
- Latitude_longitude:
- Altitude:
- 489 m
- Habit:
- A half woody, strongly aromatic shrub, densely and softly hairy
- Height:
- 1 to 4 meters
- Roots:
- Stem:
- Grow up to 2.5 centimeters in diameter
- Leaves:
- Simple, alternate, elliptic- to oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 20 centimeters long, toothed at the margins, pointed or blunt at the tip, narrowing to a short petiole which are often auricled or appendaged.
- Inflouresence_and_flowers:
- Fruits:
- Achenes, dry, 1-seeded, 10-ribbed, hairy at top.
- Seeds:
- Additional_info:
- Roots and leaves used as natural pesticides against storage pests and leaf hoppers in rice.
- Collected_by:
- Date_collected:
- Specimen_voucher_identified_by:
- Date_identified:
- Specimen_voucher_kept_at:
- Abstracted_by:
- Ando, JKA
- Date_abstracted:
- 15/02/2015
- Province:
- Siquijor