• 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) : Eragrostis atrovirens (Desf.) Trin. ex Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : River banks, grasslands and dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills about 600-1400m.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Chitradurga district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Raigad district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : Paleotropics
• World Distribution : North Africa to Zambia and Angola; India, Pakistan, Mauritania to Philippines, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; 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; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Eragrostis atrovirens. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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