• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Synonym(s) : Launaea fallax (Jaub.et Spach) Kuntze
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Launaea procumbens (Roxb.) Ramayya & Rajagopal
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sandy areas
• Comments / notes : Rhizomatous herb
• Flower, Fruit : January-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
• World Distribution : India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
• 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=Launaea procumbens. Downloaded on 5 June 2025.

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