• Family : ASTERACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Asteraceae (Compositae)
• Species : Blainvillea acmella
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson
• Common name : Spot-me Flowers
• Collection Nos : HFP 2065, CJS 15139
• Collector(s) Name : K.N.Gandhi
• Key identification features : An annual stout herb. Stem is grooved. Leaves opposite, crenate and palmately veined. Heads solitary, heterogamous; florets white turning yellow. Achenes either trigonous or flat, pappus is absent.
• Habit : Herb
• Native : India, Sri Lanka, Pantropics
• Comments : A common weed in open country or waste places
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Hassan
• Distribution Locality : Bagalkot, Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Bidar, Bijapur, Chamrajnagar, Chikamagalur, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Dharwad, Gadag, Gulbarga, Hassan, Haveri, Kodagu, Kolar, Koppal, Mandya, Mysore, Raichur, Ramanagara, Shimoga, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Yadgir
• Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere

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