• 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 curviflorum Hornem.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and wastelands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills and on fallow fields.
• Flower, Fruit : October-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; S.R. Ramesh & S.B. Manohar
• Collection Date : 15-11-2014; 24-10-1979
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-230; KFP 9799
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP); Kudligi, Bellari district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Beed district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sangli district, Satara district, Solapur district, Sindhudurg district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Indian sucontinent, Southeast Asia, China
• 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 trypheron. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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