• 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) : Spilanthes calva DC.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Acmella paniculata (Wall. ex DC.) R.K.Jansen
• Common name : Toothache Plant
• Vernacular name : Marati-mogga, Maratiteega, Pippannu puvvu (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded forests and fallow lands
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist places. Flower heads are chewed for toothache relief
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Cuttack district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesis, America and New Guinea, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, Sri Lanka, Panama
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• 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; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; 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=Spilanthes paniculata. Downloaded on 30 January 2025.

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