• 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) : Blumea barbata DC.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Degraded forests and wasteland
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 11435
• Collection Locality : Bisle Ghat (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Palakkad district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi; 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=Blumea barbata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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