• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Arthraxon micans (Nees) Hochst.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Arthraxon hispidus (Thunb.) Makino
• Vernacular name : Vanguaria, Vanguarin (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Very common throughout shaded places.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : F.M.Jarrett & T.P.Ramamoorthy; C.J.Saldanha & P.Prakash; S.R.Ramesh & Raja Keshava Murthy
• Collection Nos : HFP 923, HFP 985, KFP 3408, KFP 4082
• Collection Locality : Bisle Ghat (Hassan); Kittur (Dharwad); Dattatreya peetha (Chikmagalur)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; 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=Arthraxon hispidus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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