• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Dichanthium foveolatum (Del.) Roberty
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dichanthium foveolatum (Delile) Roberty
• Vernacular name : Ghandel, Marvel (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district, Bengaluru district, Bidar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Raichur district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere district
• 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=Eremopogon foveolatus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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