- 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) : Leersia hexandra Sw.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Wetlands
- Comments / notes : Rare; in rice fields and in shallow water tanks, usually submerged
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- World Distribution : Tropics of the Old & New World
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Leersia hexandra. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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