- 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) : Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panz.
- Common name : Viper Grass
- Vernacular name : Naribalada hullu (Kannada); Lonigawat (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Common throughout as a weed in cultivated fields
- Flower, Fruit : July-April
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Common
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Common
- Tamil Nadu : Common
- World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Iraq, India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- 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=Dinebra retroflexa. Downloaded on 7 December 2024.
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