Blumea tenella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Blumea
- Species
- Blumea tenella
- Scientific Name
- Blumea tenella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Blumea tenella
Blumea tenella is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae found in northern Australia from Queensland through the Northern Territory to Western Australia. It is also found in Indonesia, Borneo, New Guinea and New Caledonia.
Blumella tenella is an aromatic herb with yellow flowers, growing from 3 to 40 cm high. It is found on rocky or loam soils and on cracking clay on river flood plains, near creeks and swamps.
Blumea tenella was first described in 1834 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.
The Walmajarri people of the southern Kimberley call this plant Ngurnungurna.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Blumea adenophora
- Blumea arfakiana
- Blumea arnakidophora
- Blumea aromatica
- Blumea axillaris
- Blumea balsamifera
- Blumea belangeriana
- Blumea benthamiana
- Blumea bifoliata
- Blumea bovei
- Blumea brevipes
- Blumea cafra
- Blumea chishangensis
- Blumea clarkei
- Blumea conspicua
- Blumea crinita
- Blumea densiflora
- Blumea diffusa
- Blumea eriantha
- Blumea fistulosa
- Blumea formosana
- Blumea hieracifolia
- Blumea hieraciifolia
- Blumea integrifolia
- Blumea junghuhniana
- Blumea lacera
- Blumea lanceolaria
- Blumea lanceolata
- Blumea linearis
- Blumea malcolmii
- Blumea martiniana
- Blumea megacephala
- Blumea milnei
- Blumea napifolia
- Blumea obliqua
- Blumea oblongifolia
- Blumea oxyodonta
- Blumea paniculata
- Blumea papuana
- Blumea repanda
- Blumea riparia
- Blumea sagittata
- Blumea saussureoides
- Blumea saxatilis
- Blumea sessiliflora
- Blumea sinuata
- Blumea stenophylla
- Blumea sylvatica
- Blumea tenella
- Blumea tenuifolia
- Blumea venkataramanii
- Blumea veronicifolia
- Blumea virens






