• 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 tremula Hochst. ex Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : In moist places of deciduous forests
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy
• Collection Date : 25/09/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 40147
• Collection Locality : Namalagundu, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Common
• World Distribution : India, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Tropical Africa
• 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; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Eragrostis tremula. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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