• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Panicum trigonum Retz.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyrtococcum trigonum (Retz.) A.Camus
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Damp places along the sea coast, wastelands and forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in hill forest
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Cuttack district
• World Distribution : Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and Peninsular India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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=Cyrtococcum trigonum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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