- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Nardus indica L.f.
- Synonym(s) : Rottboellia setacea Roxb.; Microchloa setacea (Roxb.) R.Br.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Microchloa indica (L.f.) P.Beauv.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Dharwad district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Beed district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nanded district, Parbhani district, Sangli district, Satara district
- Odisha : Sambalpur district, Angul district, Dhenkanal district, Cuttack district, Keonjhar district, Kalhandi district, Sundergarh district
- World Distribution : India, Malaya, East and West Africa, South America
- 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Microchloa indica. Downloaded on 31 October 2025.
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