• 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) : Anaphalis lawii (Hook.f.) Gamble
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m on bare slopes. Grasslands and on rocky slopes
• Flower, Fruit : December-February
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Namakkal district, Salem district, Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka state; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Flora of Gulbarga district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District, Karnataka state; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
• 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=Anaphalis lawii. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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