Blumea lacera(Burm.f.) DC.

blumea

WFO wfo-0000095644 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Blumea lacera, photographed by 葉子
fig. a 葉子, CC0 1.0 / 2018-03-09 / obs. 28311227
Blumea lacera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199618342
Blumea lacera, photographed by 葉子
fig. c 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28311290
Blumea lacera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199618329
Blumea lacera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199618337
Blumea lacera, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199618339
Blumea lacera, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28311300
Blumea lacera, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 28311304

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000978467
Filed as
Blumea lacera (Burm.fil.) DC.
Det. by
Springate, L.S.
Collected
s.coll. 1825-01-01
Origin
NP
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Blumea lacera is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, Oman, Taiwan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, New Caledonia China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanOmanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandNew Caledonia Nansei-shotoAndaman Is.
Native distribution of Blumea lacera, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Nansei-shoto NNS
Oman OMA
Taiwan TAI
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
New Caledonia NWC PACIFIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 45 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Blumea acrocephala Miq.
  • Blumea bodinieri Vaniot
  • Blumea cernua DC.
  • Blumea cinerascens DC.
  • Blumea commersonii Edgew.
  • Blumea cuneifolia DC.
  • Blumea dregeana DC.
  • Blumea dregeanoides C.H.Schultz
  • Blumea elongata DC.
  • Blumea fontinalis Edgew.
  • Blumea glandulosa DC.
  • Blumea glandulosa var. glandulosa
  • Blumea heyneana DC.
  • Blumea hieraciifolia Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Blumea hieraciifolia var. holosericea (DC.) Benth.
  • Blumea holosericea DC.
  • Blumea lacera var. cinerascens (DC.) Hook.f.
  • Blumea lacera var. commersonii DC.
  • Blumea lacera var. glandulosa (DC.) Hook.f.
  • Blumea lacera var. hymenophylla (DC.) C.B.Clarke
  • Blumea lacera var. javanica (Blume) J.Kost.
  • Blumea lactucifolia DC.
  • Blumea musra DC.
  • Blumea subcapitata DC.

and 21 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.