Blumea procera
DC., Prodr. 5: 445. 1836; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India.
3: 268. 1881.
Herbs or undershrubs; stems erect or straggling, branched, terete, 1-3.5 m,
tall, sparsely pubescent at base, densely velutinous-villous in younger parts.
Leaves oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic-oblong, base tapering, sometimes more
or less semiamplexicaul, shortly acuminate, double dentate-serrate, 6-18.5 x 2.5 -
8.0 cm, upper surface scabrous to tomentose, densely velutino-villous on the
lower, subsessile. Heads in large, terminal, divaricate panicles, aggregated in
compound clusters on woolly branches, 5-7 (-12) mm in diam., more or less
sessile. Involucral bracts slightly longer than florets; outer oblong-ovate, acute,
1-7 mm long, coriaceous; inner linear-oblong, with scarious margins, all densely pubescent. Receptacle flat alveolate, 1.5-2.5 mm in diam., pubescent. Corolla
of bisexual florets yellow, tubular, 4.5-6 mm long, with 5 triangular, papillate
lobes with pubescence of colleters and few to many multicellular hairs; corolla
of female florets filiform, 4-5 mm long, 2-4 -lobed with occasional pubescence.
Achenes pale brown, pubescent, ribbed. Pappus white, up to 5 mm long,
copious.
Fl. & Fr. Jan.- May.
Distrib. India: Tropical evergreen forests, ca 1000-1500 m. Assam, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Nepal and Indochina.
Fl. & Fr. Jan.- May.
Distrib. India: Tropical evergreen forests, ca 1000-1500 m. Assam, Sikkim and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Nepal and Indochina.