• Family : AMARANTHACEAE
  (Amaranth Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GARUNDI FAMILY (गरूण्डी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : AMARANTHACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Celosia pulchella Moq.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sholaforest margins, dry deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district, Tiruvallur district, Tirunelveli district, The Nilgiri district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gamble, 1923. Fl. Pres. Mad. Vol. 2. pp. 1166.; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Saldanha, 1984
• 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=Celosia pulchella. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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