Chromolaena squalida

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| genus = Chromolaena

| species = squalida

| authority = (DC.) R.M.King & H.Rob.

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|Eupatorium crenatum Gardner

|Eupatorium dichotomum Sch.Bip. ex Mig.

|Eupatorium martii Mart.

|Eupatorium martiusii DC.

|Eupatorium paulinum Mart. ex Baker 1876 not DC. 1836

|Eupatorium sitiense Hieron.

|Eupatorium squalidum DC.

|Eupatorium subvelutinum DC.

|Osmia crenata Sch.Bip.

|Osmia martiusii (DC.) Sch.Bip.

|Osmia ramosissima Sch.Bip.

|Osmia squalida (DC.) Sch.Bip.

|Osmia subvelutina (DC.) Sch.Bip.

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Chromolaena squalida is a South American species of flowering shrub in the family Asteraceae. It is found in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2713102?tab=distribution Tropicos, (DC.) R.M. King & H. Rob.]Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744.Pruski, J.F. 1997. Asteraceae. 3: 177–393. In J. A. Steyermark, P. E. Berry & B. K. Holst (eds.) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. LouisFunk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584

Chromolaena squalida is a shrub with bristly stems. Leaves are opposite, green above but hairy underneath. The plant produces many small flower heads in a flat-topped array.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/151577#page/147/mode/1up Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de 1836. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 5: 142] in Latin, as Eupatorium squalidum