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King's salad (Cosmos caudatus)

Dlium King's salad (Cosmos caudatus)

King's salad (Cosmos caudatus) is a species of plant in the Asteraceae, shrub, erect, up to 2 meters high, cylindrical stem, green or purplish green, succulent, grows solitary in forests, agricultural land, roadsides and is cultivated as an ornamental plant. for flowers.

C. caudatus has soft, sharp and green leaves. At nightfall, the leaves fold to cover the terminal buds when the plant is fully asleep.



Flowers can be found solitary or in loose clusters and produced on a single stalk on an additional head. The crown is disc-shaped and bright red. The center is bright yellow.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Coreopsideae
Genus: Cosmos Cav. in Icon. 1: 9 (1791)
Species: Cosmos caudatus Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp., ed. fol., 4: 188 (1818)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bidens artemisiifolia var. caudata (Kunth) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 321 (1891)
Bidens caudata (Kunth) Sch.Bip. in B.Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald: 308 (1856)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Bidens artemisiifolia var. intermedia Kuntze (1891)
Bidens artemisiifolia var. rosea Kuntze (1891)
Bidens artemisiifolia f. rubra (Kuntze) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(3): 136 (1898)
Bidens artemisiifolia var. rubra Kuntze (1891)
Bidens berteroana Spreng. in Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 3: 454 (1826)
Bidens carnea Heer in Index Seminum (Z, Turicensis) 1842: [1] (1842)
Coreopsis coronata Bertero ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 420 (1840)
Coreopsis gracilis Blanco in Fl. Filip., ed. 2.: 591 (1845)
Cosmea caudata Spreng. (1826)
Cosmos pacificus var. chiapensis Melchert in Phytologia 69: 214 (1990)

PUBLICATIONS

Barooah, C. & Ahmed, I. (2014). Plant diversity of Assam. A checklist of Angiosperms and Gymnosperms: 1-599. Assam science technology and environment council, India.

Koyama, H., Bunwong, S., Pornpongrungrueng, P. & Hind, D.J.N. (2016). Flora of Thailand 13(2): 143-428. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.

Liogier, A.H. (1996). Flora de la Española 8: 1-588. Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo.

Nurtjahya, E. & al. (2026). Flowering Plants of Bangka Island: Native and Introduced. Acta Botanica Hungarica 68: 127-156.

Pruski, J.F. (ed.) (2018). Flora Mesoamericana 5(2): 1-608. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F.

Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Whistler, W.A. (2022). Flora of Samoa Flowering Plants: 1-930. National Tropical Botanicl Garden. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 帝皇乌蓝
Chinese (traditional): 帝皇烏藍
English: King's salad
Filipino: Cosmos, Turay-turay, Onwad
French: Cosmos
Indonesian: Ulam raja, Kenikir
Java: Kenikir, Randa midang
Malaysia: Ulam raja, Pelampong
Spanish: Estrella de mar, Clavelillo, Piquete, Margarita
Thai: ดาวรุ่ง-ภามา - คำแฮ Daoruang-phama, Khamhae

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