Blumea benthamiana Domin

Annual, erect, aromatic herb to 40 cm high. Vegetative parts with sparse to scattered long multiseptate hairs, densely glandular, often slightly vernicose. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, spathulate or elliptic, concolorous; uppermost leaves bracteate and linear, 10–70 mm long, 2–20 mm wide, coarsely or finely dentate, often entire towards base. Capitula 5–7 mm long, on peduncles to 20 mm long, solitary or more usually few together in leafy panicles terminating upper branchlets; involucral bracts densely glandular, with non-glandular hairs absent or sparse on outer bracts; receptacle flat, glabrous. Florets pink or purple. Disc corollas 3.2–4.1 mm long; lobes glandular, glabrous. Achenes c. 1 mm long, faintly ribbed.

Grows in silty and clayey soils, often on stream banks.