- 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) : Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum (Steud.) Stapf
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen and Evergreen forests
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m,by moist places.
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Bolangir district
- Tamil Nadu : Hills above 1200m, often by moist places
- World Distribution : India, China, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : 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; 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.
- 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=Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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