• 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) : Adenoon indicum Dalzell
• Common name : Blue Sonki
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 15262, CJS 17837
• Collection Locality : Vanagur (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Malappuram district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Adenoon indicum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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