• 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) : Eragrostis nutans (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Lake shores and bunds of paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Often on plains.
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 09/10/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41966
• Collection Locality : Gollalaguduru, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, South China, Malaysia, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Eragrostis nutans. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)