• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Dichanthium pallidum (Hook.f.) Stapf ex C.E.C.Fisch.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Dichanthium caricosum (L.) A.Camus
• Vernacular name : Jetare, Marvel (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common along margins and bunds of fields, river banks and open grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Collection Locality : Similipahar, Mayurbhanj District
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Common
  • Karnataka : All districts of Karnataka
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaya, China
• 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; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga district
• 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 caricosum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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