• 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) : Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf
• Common name : Sacrificial grass
• Vernacular name : Darbha, Kusha (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sandy areas, also grown occasionally
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Collection Locality : Similipahar, Mayurbhanj District
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : Indo-China, North and tropical Africa, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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.
• 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=Desmostachya bipinnata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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