Clustered yellowtops
StarFlaveria trinervia
Synonyms: Flaveria australasica, Oedera trinervia, Flaveria repanda, Flaveria trinervata, Broteroa trinervata, Nauenburgia trinervata, Dilepis dichotoma, Brotera trinervata, Brotera sprengelii, Brotera contrayerba, Flaveria australasica subsp. gilgai
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Indian traditional medicine Flaveria trinervia is used to treat jaundice and liver complaints, the leaf juice being taken for this purpose, and the leaves are also applied for skin diseases and to promote wound healing (Shanthamma and Sudarshana, 1989). Experimental studies support these uses, reporting hepatoprotective and wound-healing activity of leaf extracts.
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Botanical Description
Flaveria trinervia, the clustered yellowtops or speedyweed, is an erect annual herb of the family Asteraceae, growing to about 0.3 to 1 metre tall on a smooth, often reddish, branching stem. The opposite leaves are lanceolate to elliptic with finely toothed margins and three prominent veins running from near the base (the basis of the epithet trinervia), and the leaf bases are joined around the stem. The small yellow flower heads are densely aggregated into tight, flat-topped terminal clusters; each tiny head has only one or a few florets, so that the clusters appear as compact yellow knots, giving the plant its common name. The fruits are small, ribbed, blackish achenes that usually lack a pappus. A pantropical weed, originally American and now naturalised through Africa, the Middle East and India, it grows in disturbed, often damp or saline ground, fields, ditches, roadsides and waste places, and is notable physiologically as a C4 photosynthetic plant.
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