Blumea Dc.

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs or shrubs, rarely climbers, often aromatic, variously pubescent with glandular and eglandular septate hairs. Leaves alternate, cauline, or rosulate and cauline. Capitula many-flowered, solitary (not in Australia), paniculate or scattered, disciform, heterogamous; involucral bracts in several series, herbaceous to leathery, reflexed in old heads; receptacle epaleate, glabrous or less often pubescent or pilose. Florets yellow or pink to purple. Marginal florets female, many-seriate, filiform, 2-, 3-or 4-lobed. Disc florets usually fewer than marginal ones, bisexual or functionally male or (not in Australia) functionally female; corolla usually 5-lobed; anthers tailed; style branches linear, obtuse. Achenes terete or oblong, usually sparsely pubescent, with or without superficial ribs. Pappus plumose-setose, persistent or caducous.