• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Arthraxon meeboldii Stapf
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Fairly common in Western Ghats, growing on rocky cliffs.
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy; S.R.Ramesh & Raja Keshava Murthy
• Collection Nos : HFP 1016, HFP 1179, KFP 4777
• Collection Locality : Genkalbetta (Hassan); Bababudan Hills (Chikamagalur)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Arthraxon meeboldii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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