• 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) : Cosmos caudatus Kunth
• Common name : Garden cosmos
• Vernacular name : Akash-vendi (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Cultivated
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m as a garden escape and sometimes in fallow fields; In moist deciduous forests and in plains
• Flower, Fruit : August-April
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district
• Native : Central America
• World Distribution : West Indies, Central America, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, India, Philippines
• 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=Cosmos caudatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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