- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Manisuris forficulata C.E.C.Fisch.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Glyphochloa forficulata (C.E.C.Fisch.) Clayton
- Vernacular name : Marel (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Rocky grasslands
- Comments / notes : Occasional on grassy hill slopes in Western Ghats.
- Flower, Fruit : September-December
- Collection Nos : HFP 896
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Native : India
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh. 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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=Glyphochloa forficulata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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