- 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 8 December 2024.
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