• 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) : Garnotia arundinacea Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Forest margins
• Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats, along roadsides and at the forest margins.
• Flower, Fruit : October-February
• Collection Nos : CJS 15633, CJS 15780
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Garnotia arundinacea. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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