Blumea paniculata - Panicled Knob-Bush

Panicled Knob-Bush is an annual herb growing 0.1-1.5 m tall, with erect stems covered in velvety glandular hairs. Leaves are stalked, with leaf-stalks 0.5-5 cm long and blades 4-18 x 1.5-6 cm, varying from ovate and inverted-lanceshaped to distinctly lyrately lobed with elliptic-ovate terminal lobes and triangular lateral lobes. Leaves are thinly papery, bright green, velvety above, with toothed or lyrate margins and pointed or blunt tips. Upper leaves and inflorescence bracts are smaller, broadly ovate, and undivided. Flower-heads are borne in large, loose terminal panicles 5-20 cm long. Flower-heads are small, 4-5 mm across, borne on hairy stalks 0.5-2.5 cm long. Phyllaries are arranged in 5 series, the outer linear and densely hairy with stalked glands, the inner linear with scarious margins. Both outer and inner florets are yellow; inner florets possess velvety glandular hairs on the lobes. Cypselas are oblong, 10-ribbed, 0.6-0.8 mm long, and hairy, crowned by a white pappus of 10-13 caducous bristles measuring 2.8-5 mm long. Panicled Knob-Bush is found in the Indian Subcontinent to S. China and W. Malesia.