Blumea riparia Dc.

A small climbing herb or small shrub up to 2-5 m tall. It climbs on trees and shrubs. The stem is round and 5-8 mm thick. It does not have a channel along it. The twigs are rod like and smooth. The leaves are soft and fleshy. They are oblong and 4-13 cm long by 2.5-6 cm wide. They are oblique in shape. They have very fine teeth along the edge. The base of the leaf does not run into the leaf stalk. The leaf stalk is 3-12 mm long. The flowers occur in hairy, branched, flower stalks at the end of the plant. These are 10-20 cm long. Flowers can also occur as small groups along the twigs in the axils of leaves.

Thickets, open grassy plains, clearings, along stream and river banks or rambling on the undergrowth in rain forests; at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres.

The leaves have been recorded as eaten.

It grows wild.