• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Arthraxon microphyllus auct. Non (Trin.) Hochst.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Arthraxon lancifolius (Trin.) Hochst.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : S.R. Ramesh & B.R. Ramesh
• Collection Date : 16/11/1979
• Collection Nos : KFP 10483
• Collection Locality : Sandur Hills, Bellary district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Mayurbhanj district, Gajapati district, Ganjam district, Koraput district, Khurda district
• Native : Paleotropics
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 lancifolius. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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