• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Andropogon crinitus Thunb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pogonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and open areas
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Pune district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvallur district, Tirunelveli district, Virudhunagar district
• World Distribution : Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Japan, Solomon Islands
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. .
• 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=Pogonatherum crinitum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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