• 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) : Ischaemum semisagittatum Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Ber, Dalaga (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common in cutivated fields
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Anantapur district, Guntur district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Kottayam district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Sangli district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.; 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 semisagittatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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