• 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 riparia (Willd.) Nees
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along water bodies
• Comments / notes : Occasional on sandy shores.
• Flower, Fruit : August-May
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Udupi district, Tumakuru district, Mysuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kana
• 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 riparia. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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