• 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) : Dichanthium annulatum (Forssk.) Stapf
• Vernacular name : Jinjva, Marvel, Paunava (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Common on the bunds of cultivated fields and open grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : June-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : Tropical Africa, India, Myanmar
• World Distribution : Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Middle-East to Indonesia; introduced to South Africa, Tropical America and Australia, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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=Dichanthium annulatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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