• 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) : Arundinella setosa Trin.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 15-11-2014; 25-10-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-232; HJCB-0063
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP); K.P. Dam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Tirumala Hills (Chittoor district), Nallamalai Hills (Kurnool district)
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Raigad district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Hills of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, China, Malaysia, Nepal
• 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; 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; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• 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=Arundinella setosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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