• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Basionym : Decaneurum scabridum DC.
• Synonym(s) : Phyllocephalum ritchiei (Hook.f.) Narayana; Centratherum ritchiei Hook.f. ; Centratherum phyllolaenum (DC.) Benth. ex Hook.f.; Centratherum tenue C.B.Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Phyllocephalum scabridum (DC.) K.Kirkman
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Collector(s) Name : Saldanha; M.C Lukose
• Collection Date : 03-11-1954
• Collection Nos : CS 2058
• Collection Locality : Purandar, Pune; Ponmudi, Thiruvananthapuram District; Tirunelli, Wynad District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Davanagare district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district, Wayanad district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere 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=Phyllocephalum scabridum. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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