• Family : APIACEAE
  (Carrot Or Coriander Or Parsley Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : SAUNF FAMILY (सौंफ फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : APIACEAE
• Basionym : Heracleum pedatum Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Vanasushava pedata (Wight) P.K. Mukh. & Constance
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Rare. Shola forests
• Key identification features : Procumbent; rooting at lower nodes; Leaves are ovate, acute, serrate or scabrous; petiole sheathing at base; Umbels compound; Flowers white; Mericarps unequally winged.
• Flower, Fruit : June-October
• Collector(s) Name : Divya P.D
• Collection Locality : Peermade, Idukki District, Kerala
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Native : India
• Endemism : South India
• Conservation Status : Vulnerable (VU)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Ravichandran, V. 2016. Taxonomic and Phytogeographical investigation on endemic plants of Western Ghats with special reference to Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary of Tamil Nadu (Ph.D. thesis work); 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=Vanasushava pedata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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