Jhenia / Elegant Zinnia
Zinnia elegans
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala & more
How to identify Jhenia
Identify Jhenia by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Cultivated bedding flower with bold flat flower heads.
- Confirm leaf surface: Hirsute (coarsely hairy).
- Confirm flower colour: Pink.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In India, compare location records such as Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Jhenia.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Zinnia elegans
- Genus
- Zinnia
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Found in India
- Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Assam, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Goa, Delhi, Tripura, Haryana, Manipur, Mizoram, Puducherry
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Hirsute (coarsely hairy)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Jhenia itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Pinkrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“It has solitary flower heads about 5 cm (2 in) across.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Jhenia itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Marathi
- झेंनिया Jhenia
About Jhenia
Elegant Zinnia (Zinnia elegans) belongs to the Asteraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala and 19 other states.
Uses
Locally it is planted as an ornamental.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Jhenia belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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