《中国植物志》|| 菊科 COMPOSITAE ||野茼蒿属 Crassooephalum Moench. ||野茼蒿 Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore

1.野茼蒿 草命菜 图版67: 1-2
Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore in Journ. Bot. Btit. For. 50: 211. 1912; S. Y. Hu in Quart. Journ. Taiw. Mus. 19: 205. 1966; 西藏植物志4: 804. 图354. 1988; 贵州植物志9: 224. 1989. 横断山区维管植物下册: 2102. 1994. Crynura crepidioides Benth. in Hook. f. Fl. Niger. 438. 1849. ; 海南植物志3: 417. 1974; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 550. 图6514. 1975.
直立草本，高20-120厘米，茎有纵条棱，无毛叶膜质，椭圆形或长圆状椭圆形，长7-12厘米，宽4-5厘米，顶端渐尖，基部楔形，边缘有不规则锯齿或重锯齿，或有时基部羽状裂，两面无或近无毛；叶柄长2-2.5厘米。头状花序数个在茎端排成伞房状，直径约3厘米，总苞钟状，长1-1.2厘米，基部截形，有数枚不等长的线形小苞片；总苞片1层，线状披针形，等长，宽约1.5毫米，具狭膜质边缘，顶端有簇状毛，小花全部管状，两性，花冠红褐色或橙红色，檐部5齿裂，花柱基部呈小球状，分枝，顶端尖，被乳头状毛。瘦果狭圆柱形，赤红色，有肋，被毛；冠毛极多数，白色，绢毛状，易脱落。花期7-12月。
产江西、福建、湖南、湖北、广东、广西、贵州、云南、四川、西藏。山坡路旁、水边、灌丛中常见，海拔300-1800米。泰国、东南亚和非洲也有。是一种在泛热带广泛分布的一种杂草。
全草入药，有健脾、消肿之功效，治消化不良、脾虚浮肿等症。嫩叶是一种味美的野菜。

《云南植物志》|| 菊科 Compositae ||野茼蒿属 Crassocephalum Moench. ||野茼蒿 Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore

1. 野茼蒿 (图鉴) 图版77：1-3
革命菜、野木耳菜、野青菜 (江川) ，灯笼草 (景洪)
Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore (1912); 云南种子植物名录 (1984); 中国植物志 (1999)*.
Gynura crepidioides Benth. in Hook. f. (1849); 图鉴 (1975)*.
一年生草本，高20-120厘米。茎直立，无毛。叶质薄，椭圆形或长椭圆形，长7-12厘米，宽4-5厘米，先端渐尖，边缘有粗齿或重齿，基部楔形，两面无毛；叶柄长2-2.5厘米。头状花序数个，排列成伞房花序；总苞筒状，长10-12毫米，宽8-10毫米，基部具多数小外苞片；总苞片1层，线状披针形，宽1.5毫米，先端有簇状毛尖，边缘膜质。小花多数，细管状，花冠长8-12毫米，红褐色或橙黄红色。瘦果狭圆柱形，赤红色，具肋，被毛；冠毛长8-12毫米，白色。花果期3-12月。
产师宗、德钦、贡山、福贡、维西、泸水、中甸、丽江、漾濞、昆明、楚雄、峨山、华宁、江川、蒙自、元阳、麻栗坡、马关、绿春、屏边、金平、河口、景东、景洪、勐海、勐腊、保山、腾冲、凤庆、潞西、沧源；生于海拔330-4000米的山坡、水边、沟谷林缘、山顶石缝中。分布于西藏、四川、贵州、湖北、湖南、江西、福建、广西、广东。热带亚洲和非洲也有。

《Flora of China》|| Asteraceae || Crassocephalum ||野茼蒿 Crassocephalum crepidioides

1. Crassocephalum crepidioides (Bentham) S. Moore, J. Bot. 50: 211. 1912.

野茼蒿 ye tong hao

Gynura crepidioides Bentham in Hooker, Niger Fl. 438. 1849.

Plants erect, 20-120 cm tall. Stems striate, glabrous. Leaf petiole 2-2.5 cm; blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 7-12 × 4-5 cm, membranous, both surfaces glabrous or subglabrous, base cuneate, margin irregularly serrate or double-serrate, sometimes pinnately lobed at base, apex acuminate. Capitula several to numerous in terminal corymbiform cymes, shortly pedunculate, 3-5 mm in diam. Involucres cylindric, 1-1.2 cm, basally truncate, with few unequal linear bracteoles; bracts of calyculus 6-21, 2-6 mm; phyllaries uniseriate, linear-lanceolate, equal, ca. 1.5 mm wide, margin narrowly scarious, apically puberulent. Florets tubular, bisexual; corolla red-brownish or orange, rarely yellow, 8-10 mm; lobes 5, ca. 1 mm. Style branches acute, papillose. Achenes brownish, narrowly oblong, 1.8-2.3 mm, ribbed, hairy. Pappus 7-13 mm, early deciduous. Fl. Jul-Dec.

Slopes, roadsides, streamsides, thickets; 300-1800 m. ?Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Hubei, ?Jiangsu, Jiangxi, ?Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, ?Zhejiang [native to Africa; pantropical weed of Africa, S and SE Asia, Australia, Central and South America, and Pacific islands].

Crassocephalum crepidioides is used medicinally to invigorate the spleen and treat indigestion; the young leaves are an edible wild vegetable.