• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Oxytenanthera stocksii Munro
• Synonym(s) : Dendrocalamus stocksii (Munro) M.Kumar, Remesh & Unnikrishnan
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii (Munro) T.Q.Nguyen
• Vernacular name : Chivari, Konda (Marathi)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Banks of rivers and streams
• Comments / notes : Common in cultivation.
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Collection Nos : KFP 14756
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district
  • Maharashtra : Jalgaon district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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.
• 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=Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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