• 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 viscosa (Retz.) Trin.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wastelands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains, more on sandy ground
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Common
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Dhule district, JGN, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Sangli district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : Paleotropics
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• 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; 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.
• 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 viscosa. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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