• 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) : Bidens biternata (Lour.) Merr. & Sherff
• Common name : Gold Cup Silver Plate, Spanish Needles
• Vernacular name : Magha latenga (Oria); Kandavarekuthi, Snehappullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along waysides in forest and disturbed habitats
• Comments / notes : As a weed in cultivated lands and wastelands
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 13/12/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-377
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidiforest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• Native : Tropical Africa
• World Distribution : Asia, Tropical Africa, Indo-Malesia to Australia
• 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; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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=Bidens biternata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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