• 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) : Gynura lycopersicifolia DC.
• Vernacular name : Pottari (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Among wet rocks in moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : June-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Koraput district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Naidu, M.T, O.A. Kumar & M. Venkaiah (2015). Vascular plant diversity in the sacred grove of Modapalli in Viskhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7683-7690
• 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=Gynura lycopersicifolia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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