KI RINYU ( Chromolaena ordorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Robinson )

KI RINYU
Chromolaena ordorata (L.) R.M. King & H. Robinson

Asteraceae
Vernacular names: Siam weed, Christmas bush, goat weed (Eng.); Malaysia:
Siam weed, pokok kapal terbang; the Philippines: devil weed, gonoi; Myanmar:
bi-zat, tawbizat; Thailand: sapsua, ya-suamop
Geographical distribution: from the Western Ghats in India throughout
Indochina and Malesia to south-eastern Australia and the Mariana Islands
in the east
Uses: used in traditional medicine
Life form and origin: herb, indigenous plant


The one of five hundred plant species in Gunung Halimun Salak National Park, West Java

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