Sporobolus diander (Retz.) P.Beauv.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
  • Family (As per The Plant List) : Poaceae
  • Species : Sporobolus diander (Retz.) P.Beauv.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sporobolus diandrus (Retz.) P.Beauv.
  • Common name : Drop seed Grass
  • Collection Nos : HFP 618, HFP 1828, R R Rao 1733, HFP 363
  • Key identification features : A tufted grass. Leaves flat or involute; ligule a fringe of hairs. Panicle pyramidal; branches spreading, with many small spikelets arranged racemosely along the axis. Spikelets c. 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 2. Grain c. 0.6 mm. long, obovoid, coarsely pitted.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Native : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
  • Comments : Common along road-sides and in waste lands.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Bijapur, Chikamagalur, Dharwad, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Dakshina Kannada
  • Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Gowda, 2004 - Sringeri; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara

Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Images

Comments

All fields are required







 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Karnataka by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/FloraKarnataka/.