• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Basionym : Conyza lanceolaria Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Blumea lanceolaria (Roxb.) Druce
• Habit : Undershrub
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Along streams in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : February-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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 lanceolaria. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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