• 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) : Chrysopogon asper B.Heyne ex Blatt. & McCann
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and rocky terrain
• Comments / notes : Occasional in forests.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 25-10-2014; 28-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0075; HJCB-0392 and 0394
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Raigad district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; 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=Chrysopogon asper. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Herbarium Specimen(s)