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Genus: Blumea

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Family: Asteraceae > Tribe: Inuleae

About 100 species, found from tropical Africa through to Asia and Australia. Three species are native to southern Africa.  

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of southern Africa - an online checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Blumea axillaris

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

Blumea brevipes

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Blumea dregeanoides

Publications

  • Randeria, A.J. 1960. The composite genus Blumea, a taxonomic revision. Blumea 10: 176-317.