• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Ishcaemum semisagittatum Thw.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Ischaemum commutatum Hack.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands and grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on stream banks and on slopes
• Flower, Fruit : September-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Kanyakumari district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; 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 commutatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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