Present on Pacific Islands?  no

Threat only at high elevations?  no

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Herb or shrub 1-1.5 m tall; petioles 0.3-0.7 cm long; leaf blades (1-) 2-5 x 0.7-2.2 cm, elliptic, the lower surface pubescent and glandular; involucres 6-7 x 1.5-2 mm; corollas ca. 4.5 mm long; achenes ca. 3 mm long" (Berry et al., 1997; p. 249).

Habitat/ecology:  In Venezuela, "savannas, 100-500 m" (Berry et al., 1997; p. 249)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia (Berry et al., 1997; p. 249).

Presence:

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	Queensland	introduced invasive	Waterhouse, B. M (2003) (pp. 482-483) Subject of an eradication program.

Comments:  Apparently introduced to Queensland, Australia, as a contaminant of pasture seeds imported from Brazil (Waterhouse, 2003; p. 482-283).

Additional information:  Additional online information about Chromolaena squalida is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Taxonomic information about Chromolaena squalida may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Berry, Paul E./Holst, Bruce K./ Yatskievych, Kay. 1997. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, vol. 3: Aralaceae-Cactaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. .

Waterhouse, B. M. 2003. Know your enemy: recent records of potentially serious weeds in northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Papua (Indonesia). Telopea 10(1):477-485.