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Hi Nuwan, I am really sorry to say that I have made a mistake in ID ing this plant. It makes total sense why I couldn't find info about Emilia fosbergii in Srilanka. This spotting is that of Crassocephalum crepidioides and not Emilia, same family, Asteraceae but different genus. I also found 2 other spottings of this same species in PN http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/9196039. Reference sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassocephalum_crepidioides, http://www.iewf.org/weedid/Crassocephalum_crepidioides.htm

It could be but I couldn't find any information about that. I think its okay to confirm the species. But I will try to find how it came to Srilanka. In Kerala Emilia sonchifolia is common. But I have never come across fosbergii.

But the fact that this species of Emilia is not found usually in Srilanka makes me doubt whether I had made a mistake in ID ing it.