• 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) : Blumea belangeriana DC.
• Vernacular name : Venappacha (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Shaded places along stream beds and forests margins
• Flower, Fruit : November-April
• Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy & K.N.Gandhi
• Collection Nos : HFP 2646
• Collection Locality : Panorama point, Shiradi Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : KSR, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi; 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=Blumea belangeriana. Downloaded on 2 February 2025.

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