• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Synonym(s) : Blumea conyzoides H.Lév. & Vaniot
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Conyza leucantha (D.Don) Ludlow & Raven
• Habit : Undershrub
• Comments / notes : On hills above 1000m, in wasteland, bunds and in paddy fields, grasslands, semi-evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : November-September
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia to Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Conyza leucantha. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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