• 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) : Arthraxon lanceolatus (Roxb.) Hochst.
• Vernacular name : Govinder, Harjala, Sipla (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : August-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Satara district, Akola district
  • Odisha : Sundergarh district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Arabia and China
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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 lanceolatus var. lanceolatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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