- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Andropogon rhozophorus Steud.
- Synonym(s) : Spodiopogon albidus Benth.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Spodiopogon rhizophorus (Steud.) Pilg.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Semi-evergreen forests often along road cuttings
- Flower, Fruit : September-December
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Ballari district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nanded district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Solapur district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Endemism : South West India
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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=Spodiopogon rhizophorus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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