• Family : ASTERACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Asteraceae (Compositae)
• Species : Acanthospermum hispidum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acanthospermum hispidum DC.
• Common name : Bristly Starbur
• Vernacular name : Kadle mullu (Kan.); Kaanthi (Hin.)
• Collection Nos : HFP 277, CJS 13571
• Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy
• Key identification features : A common herb with opposite coarsely serrate, hairy leaves. Flowers are tiny (less than 1 cm.), both tubular and ray flowers in a head inflorescence. Fruit is a small, compressed, bristly nut.
• Habit : Herb
• Native : Tropical America
• Comments : A gregarious weed of the wastelands and disturbed sites
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Arkalgud (Hassan)
• Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Kolar, Mysore, Raichur, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

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