• 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) : Hygroryza aristata (Retz.) Nees ex Wight & Arn.
• Common name : Bengal wild rice
• Vernacular name : Jungali dal (Hindi); Nirvaaraha (Sanskrit); Neervallippullu, Varinellu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands
• Comments / notes : Common in tanks, lakes and slow-moving streams
• Flower, Fruit : November-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Mayurbhanj district, Cuttack district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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.
• 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=Hygroryza aristata. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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