Botanical name: Blumea axillaris    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)
Synonyms: Blumea mollis, Blumea wightiana, Blumea neilgherrensis

Pink Blumea is an annual herb, 0.3-1 m high, strongly aromatic and somewhat sticky. Stems are erect, simple or branched from the base, glandular-hairy. Leaves are ovate-oblong, 1-9.5 cm long, 0.6-5 cm wide, sharply toothed, densely silky hairy on both surfaces, upper leaves smaller, pointed to apiculate, base narrowed, stalkless, lower leaves rounded or blunt, base tapering, stalked. Flower panicles are dense, spike-like with smaller panicles in leaf-axils. Flower heads are hemispherical to bell-shaped, 3-4 mm across carried on silky flower-cluster-stalks. Florets are purple or pink. Involucral bracts are in 2-3 series, linear, pointed to tapering, purplish tinged, densely hairy, the outer shorter. Seedpod body is oblong, 1 mm long, sparsely to densely hairy; pappus white, 2-4 mm long. Pink Blumea is native to Tropical & Subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia, below 1500 m elevation.

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