• Family : APIACEAE
  (Carrot Or Coriander Or Parsley Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAUNF FAMILY (सौंफ फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Grasslands and shola margins
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1200m on bare slopes in full sun.
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : The Nilgiri district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Gamble 1919. Fl. Mad. Pres. Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
• 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=Heracleum sprengelianum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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