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|accepted_name=Gynura aurantiaca
|accepted_authority=(Blume) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|place=6: 300. 1838
|year=1838
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|common_names=Velvet plant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cacalia aurantiaca
|authority=Blume
|publication_title=Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.,
|publication_place=908. 1826
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Gynura;Gynura aurantiaca
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gynura]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gynura aurantiaca]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 610
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>somewhat lax or clambering, branching, fleshy, conspicuously fuzzy-hairy (± velutinous to villous, crosswalls of hairs purplish). <b>Leaves</b>: petioles 0–3+ cm; blades 4–10(–15) × 2–5(–8) cm, margins raggedly toothed, faces ± velutinous to villous, hairs purplish. <b>Heads</b> 1–5. <b>Calyculi</b>: bractlets 3–6+ mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 10–12+ mm, tips greenish or minutely darkened. <b>Disc</b> corollas yellow or orange to brick-red (drying purplish), 8–12+ mm; style-branch appendages orange, 1–2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> glabrous; pappi 10–12 mm. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–winter.
|habitat=Shaded, damp sites
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;se Asia;also introduced e Africa (including Madagascar) and Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Gynura aurantiaca</i> is a tender pot-plant that is sometimes grown outdoors. It is marginally established in the flora, persisting as an escape from cultivation in southern Florida. It may be encountered elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. The orange, filiform appendages of the style branches are distinctive; the flowers are reported to be unpleasantly scented.</p>
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name=Gynura aurantiaca
|author=
|authority=(Blume) de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Cacalia aurantiaca
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–winter.
|habitat=Shaded, damp sites
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;se Asia;also introduced e Africa (including Madagascar) and Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication year=1838
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Gynura
|species=Gynura aurantiaca
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