• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Poa chinensis L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Rare along margins of ponds in wet and harvested rice fields and on plains in discrete clumps by arable lands
• Flower, Fruit : May-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 09/12/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41981
• Collection Locality : Nallacheruvupalle, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dharwad district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nanded district, Parbhani district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Puri district, Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Southeast Asia, India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Leptochloa chinensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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