• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Apocopis mangalorensis (Hochst. ex Steud.) Henrard
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests, grasslands and waste places
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hill slopes after monsoon.
• Flower, Fruit : October-November
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha & P.Prakash
• Collection Nos : KFP 4002
• Collection Locality : Byra (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Apocopis mangalorensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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