- Family:
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Blumea DC.

[FTEA]
Compositae, H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2005
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial shrubs or herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate, simple, dentate to pinnatifid, usually hairy
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Capitulum
- Capitula heterogamous, disciform, solitary or in lax corymbs or panicles; phyllaries numerous, the outermost shortest, chartaceous, all pubescent on the abaxial surface, with scarious margins; receptacle honeycombed, epaleate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Florets usually yellow, but purple or mauve in ours; outer florets female, filiform, in several rows, inner florets with 4–5 lobes; anthers tailed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes narrowly oblong, ribbed, hairy; pappus uniseriate, of numerous barbellate bristles
- Distribution
- About a hundred species, mainly in tropical Asia, but a few in Australia and Africa.“There is no more unsatisfactory genus than this” (Hooker).
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial shrubs or herbs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, simple, dentate to pinnatifid, usually hairy
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Capitula disciform, solitary or in lax corymbs or panicles; phyllaries numerous, pubescent, with scarious margins
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Outer florets female, filiform, in several series, inner florets with 4–5 lobes; anthers tailed; style with sweeping-hairs on style arms only
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes narrowly oblong, ribbed, hairy; pappus uniseriate, of barbellate bristles.
- Distribution
- About 80-100 species, mainly in tropical Asia, but a few in Australia and Africa.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial herbs or subshrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, simple, dentate to almost entire, hairy to subglabrous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Capitula disciform, solitary or in lax corymbs; phyllaries numerous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Outer florets female, filiform, in several series; inner florets bisexual, 5-lobed; anthers tailed; style with obtuse sweeping-hairs reaching far below the bifurcation
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achenes oblong, sparsely hairy, with a few conspicuous red longitudinal resin ducts; pappus uniseriate, of barbellate bristles.
- Distribution
- Genus of two species in Africa, one of them extending to Iran and Pakistan.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Cape Verde, Galápagos, Hawaii, Mauritius, Réunion, Society Is.
- Blumea adamsii J.-P.Lebrun & Stork
- Blumea adenophora Franch.
- Blumea angustifolia Thwaites
- Blumea arfakiana Martelli
- Blumea arnakidophora Mattf.
- Blumea aromatica DC.
- Blumea axillaris (Lam.) DC.
- Blumea balfourii Hemsl.
- Blumea balsamifera (L.) DC.
- Blumea barbata DC.
- Blumea belangeriana DC.
- Blumea benthamiana Domin
- Blumea bicolor Merr.
- Blumea bifoliata (L.) DC.
- Blumea borneensis S.Moore
- Blumea bovei (DC.) Vatke
- Blumea braunii (Vatke) J.-P.Lebrun & Stork
- Blumea bullata J.Kost.
- Blumea cafra (DC.) O.Hoffm.
- Blumea canalensis S.Moore
- Blumea celebica Boerl.
- Blumea confertiflora Merr.
- Blumea conspicua Hayata
- Blumea crinita Arn.
- Blumea densiflora DC.
- Blumea diffusa R.Br. ex Benth.
- Blumea eriantha DC.
- Blumea fistulosa (Roxb.) Kurz
- Blumea flava DC.
- Blumea formosana Kitam.
- Blumea hamiltonii DC.
- Blumea heudelotii (C.D.Adams) Lisowski
- Blumea hieraciifolia (Spreng.) DC.
- Blumea hirsuta (Less.) M.R.Almeida
- Blumea hossei Craib ex Hosseus
- Blumea htamanthii C.X.Yang & Y.Luo
- Blumea incisa Merr.
- Blumea integrifolia DC.
- Blumea intermedia J.Kost.
- Blumea junghuhniana (Miq.) Boerl.
- Blumea lacera (Burm.f.) DC.
- Blumea laevis (Lour.) Merr.
- Blumea lanceolaria (Roxb.) Druce
- Blumea lanceolata Warb.
- Blumea linearis C.I Peng & W.P.Leu
- Blumea longipes Merr.
- Blumea macrostachya DC.
- Blumea malcolmii Hook.f.
- Blumea manillensis DC.
- Blumea martiniana Vaniot
- Blumea megacephala C.T.Chang & C.H.Yu
- Blumea milnei Seem.
- Blumea mindanaensis Merr.
- Blumea moluccana Boerl.
- Blumea napifolia DC.
- Blumea obliqua (L.) Druce
- Blumea oblongifolia Kitam.
- Blumea obovata DC.
- Blumea oxyodonta DC.
- Blumea papuana S.Moore
- Blumea psammophila Dunlop
- Blumea pungens W.Fitzg.
- Blumea ramosii Merr.
- Blumea repanda (Roxb.) Hand.-Mazz.
- Blumea riparia DC.
- Blumea sagittata Gagnep.
- Blumea saussureoides C.C.Chang & Y.Q.Tseng ex Y.Ling & Y.Q.Tseng
- Blumea saxatilis Zoll. & Moritzi
- Blumea scabrifolia Ridl.
- Blumea sericea (Thomson) Anderb. & A.K.Pandey
- Blumea sessiliflora Decne.
- Blumea sikkimensis Hook.f.
- Blumea sinuata (Lour.) Merr.
- Blumea stenophylla Merr.
- Blumea subalpina Lauterb.
- Blumea sumbawensis Boerl.
- Blumea sylvatica (Blume) DC.
- Blumea tenella DC.
- Blumea tenuifolia C.Y.Wu
- Blumea ternatensis Boerl.
- Blumea timorensis DC. ex Decne.
- Blumea vanoverberghii Merr.
- Blumea venkataramanii R.S.Rao & Hemadri
- Blumea veronicifolia Franch.
- Blumea vestita Kitam.
- Blumea viminea DC.
- Blumea virens DC.
- Blumea zeylanica Grierson
Blumea DC. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Arch. Bot. (Paris) 2: 514 (1833)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 3: 322. Nom. cons.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by H. Beentje [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Anderb. in K. Bremer, Asteraceae Clad. & Class.: 284 (1994), nom. conserv .
- Anderb. in Plant Syst. & Evol. 176: 105 (1991)
- Randeria in Blumea 10: 205 (1960)
- in Guill. in Arch. Bot. 2: 514 (1833)
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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