• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Aira indica L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sacciolepis indica (L.) Chase
• Common name : Glenwoodgrass
• Vernacular name : Bocha-pul (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands and marshy areas
• Flower, Fruit : June-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 28/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0393
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Himalayas, Tropical Asia, Polynesia, Australia; introduced in Africa & America
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Sacciolepis indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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