Cutleaf Blumea is an unpleasant smelling herb 1-6 ft tall from a taproot. Stems are erect to ascending, usually branched from the base, hairless or
hairy. Leaves are inverted-laceshaped, obovate to elliptic in outline,
4.5-36.5 cm long, 0.8-21 cm wide. The lower leaves are pinnately lobed,
sometimes with a large terminal lobe, becoming progressively less lobed
above. Margins are irregularly toothed. Lower leaves have 1-6 cm long
stalks, upper ones are stalkless. Flower-heads are borne in large, open
panicles at the end of branches. Involucral bracts are often purple-
tinged, reflexed at maturity, 1-8 mm long, hairy. Receptacle is sparsely
hairy. Florets are yellow, perfect florets 5-lobed, 4-5 mm long, marginal
pistillate florets are 2-3-lobed, 3.5-4.5 mm long. Achenes are brown,
ribbed, 4 mm long. Cutleaf Blumea is native to India and SE Asia.
Flowering: February-March.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Delhi.
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