• 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 20 May 2024.

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