• 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) : Senecio tenuifolius Burm.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub forests and dry deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sanakara Rao
• Collection Date : 26/11/2015
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0404
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dharmapuri district, Vellore district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Java, Indonesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; .N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Senecio tenuifolius. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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