- 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) : Isachne globosa (Thunb.) Kuntze
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy fields, wetlands, along the streams and in paddy fields
- Comments / notes : Rare on hills to about 1300m. This is an endangered grass from Mookambika Wildlife Sanctuary, Karnataka, India.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : East Godavari district (East Godavari district), West Godavari (East Godavari district)
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- World Distribution : India, Nepal, Southeast Asia to China, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Endangered (EN)
- Literature : Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.; 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=Isachne miliacea. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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