Blumea milnei Seem.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Blumea

Characteristics

Suffruticose (?annual) erect herb to 2 m high. Stems striate, minutely glandular, grey-tomentose; inflorescence branches and peduncles villous or closely tomentose. Leaves petiolate, elliptic or oblanceolate, 20–190 mm long, 1–40 mm wide, finely to coarsely dentate or serrate, acute, discolorous, sparsely strigose or becoming glabrous above, minutely grey-tomentose below. Capitula 7–8 mm long, sessile or shortly pedunculate in open or contracted, leafy terminal panicles to 30 cm long; involucral bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, villous to pilose; receptacle flat or convex, fimbriate, pilose. Florets yellow; marginal corollas glabrous; disc corollas c. 5.3 mm long, with lobes glandular, usually with a few septate and simple hairs. Achenes 1.0–1.2 mm long, ribbed.
Life form annual
Growth form
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.75
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Environment

Dense, wet forests along trails and stream banks and sometimes in clearings and waste places; at elevations up to 1,100 metres.
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Grows in wet tropical rainforest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Blumea milnei world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Australia, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:185633-1
WFO ID wfo-0000128307
COL ID M7JH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 821089
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Synonyms

Blumea milnei