• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Panicum tenuissimum Schrank
• Synonym(s) : Sporobolus minutiflorus (Trin.) Link; Vilfa minutiflora Trin.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sporobolus tenuissimus (Schrank.) Kuntze
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Rare along water courses
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Karnataka : Udupi district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; 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=Sporobolus tenuissimus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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