• Family : Asteraceae
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Asteraceae
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Acmella paniculata (Wall. ex DC.) R.K.Jansen
• Common name : Toothache Plant
• Vernacular name : Adi Marsang, Marsang (Adi); Jati malkathi (Assamese); An'sa-te(Mizo)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open grasslands, roadsides, edges of forest, rice field and river-banks
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist places. Flower heads are chewed for toothache relief
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesis, America and New Guinea, Nepal, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-China, Sri Lanka, Panama
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Balakrishnan, N. P. (1983). Flora of Jowai Vol.2. Published BSI: 257
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Spilanthes paniculata. Downloaded on 4 March 2021.

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