• 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) : Cenchrus biflorus Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Bhoront, Kukar (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Dhule district, Nagpur district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa through Arabia, Pakistan, India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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=Cenchrus biflorus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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