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Blumea mollis

Scientific Name
Blumea mollis
Family Name
Compositae
Common Names
Local Names
Kukula (Sri Lanka)
Description
An annual herb with an erect stem 30-60cm high, branched above, densely glandular-pubescent; leaves simple, alternate, exstipulatc, sessile, 2-7cm long, 0.6-2.8cm broad,oval or oblong-oval tapering to base, obtuse or subacute, sharply dentate-serrate,finely stiky pubescent on both sides; flowers all tubular in numerous purple heads,crowded in short cymes forming a large elongated inflorescence, stalks glandular-pubescent, involucre bracts in several rows, narrowly linear, acuminate, glandularhairy; outer rows of flowers all female and the disc flowers bisexual; sepals reducedto numerous bristles; petals 5, fused into a valvate corolla-tube 3.2mm long, lobes 5,spathulate rounded at apex; stamens 5, epipetalous, filaments free, anthers 1 .5mmlong, fused, anther bases sagittate with slender tails; ovary inferior, 0.6mm long, 2-carpellary, unilocular with a single basal ovule, style 3mm long and styler arms0.5mm Long; fruit a small achene, not ribbed but with a white pappus in a single row.Flowers in about September, October, December, January and May. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Renal, uterus discharge, anti scorbutic, anthelmintic, bleeding piles, catarrhalaffections, diuretic (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Blumea mollis (IPNI)

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