- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Poa chinensis L.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Scrub jungles
- Comments / notes : Rare along margins of ponds in wet and harvested rice fields and on plains in discrete clumps by arable lands
- Flower, Fruit : May-February
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 09/12/2010
- Collection Nos : FAP 41981
- Collection Locality : Nallacheruvupalle, Kadapa district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dharwad district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nanded district, Parbhani district
- Odisha : Khurda district, Puri district, Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Ramanathapuram district, Thanjavur district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
- World Distribution : Southeast Asia, India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- 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=Leptochloa chinensis. Downloaded on 6 December 2024.
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