• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ischaemum mangaluricum (Hack.) Stapf ex C.E.C.Fisch.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ischaemum barbatum Retz.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along banks of lakes and streams, found in rocky habitats, as a weed in paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Rare on rocks and in rocks crevices along streams, near water falls
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Collection Nos : HFP 1593
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Nashik district, Kolhapur district, Raigad district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philipiens, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Ischaemum barbatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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