• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze
• Common name : Sticky daisy, Club wort
• Vernacular name : Junglee Jira (Hindi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m on shola floor, by stream banks and in shade. Also a colonizer in disturbed ground. Evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, plains
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Bargarh district, Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Theni district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
• World Distribution : India, China, Malaysia, Australia, tropical Africa, Polynesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1987). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 2.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Adenostemma lavenia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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