- 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 7 December 2024.
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