• 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) : Tithonia diversifolia (Hemsl.) A.Gray
• Common name : Mexican Sunflower
• Habit : Shrub
• Comments / notes : Gregarious weed of wastelands. Often grown as live fence
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Cultivated sometimes in wild
  • Tamil Nadu : Salem district, Madurai district
• Native : Tropical south America
• World Distribution : Introduced in tropics
• 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=Tithonia diversifolia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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