Wool-Flower Blumea is an erect unbranched herb, up to
50 cm high with stems reddish, sparsely hairy. Leaves are 3-6 x 1-2 cm,
elliptic to obovate, tapering at base, rough above. Flower-heads are 6
x7 mm, borne at branch-ends in congested leafy panicles, carried on
flower-cluster-stalks 5 mm long. Bracts are 6 x 0.5 mm, lanceshaped,
tapering, brown; outer smaller, velvet-hairy. Bisexual flowers are few,
central; florets 4 mm long, sparsely hairy; lobes velvet-hairy. Achene
are 1 mm long, ribbed, sparsely hairy; pappus 4 mm long, brownish.
Wool-Flower Blumea is native to India and Nepal. Flowering:
November-April.
Identification credit: Sushant More
Photographed in Maharashtra.
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