Blumea tenella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Blumea |
Species: | B. tenella |
Binomial name | |
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. [1] It is also found in Indonesia, Borneo, New Guinea and New Caledonia. [2]
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. [3]
Blumea tenella was first described in 1834 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. [4]
The Walmajarri people of the southern Kimberley call this plant Ngurnungurna. [5]
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Ventilago viminalis, commonly known as supplejack, vine tree or whip vine, is a tree native to Northern and Central Australia from coastal regions of Queensland to the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
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Decaisnina angustata is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae native to the Northern Territory, northern Western Australia, and northern Queensland. It was first described in 1983 as Decaisnina petiolata subsp. angustata by Bryan Alwyn Barlow who subsequently raised it to species status in 1993.
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