• 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) : Panicum antidotale Retz.
• Common name : Blue panic
• Vernacular name : Git, Sera (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 800m. Cultivated as a cereal.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
• World Distribution : South and Central Asia, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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.
• 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=Panicum antidotale. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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