• 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 lanceolaria (Roxb.) Druce
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Degraded forest areas and plantations
• Flower, Fruit : December-March
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 12588, CJS 16282
• Collection Locality : Charmadi Ghat (Chikamagalur)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Bodamalai Hills, Kalrayan Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Dharmapuri Hills, Theerthamalai Hills (Dharmapuri district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Philippines and China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere; 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 var. spectabilis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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