• 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) : Lophopogon tridentatus (Roxb.) Hack.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in plains.
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 15/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-238
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Gooty konda, Guttur konda (Anantapur district), Krishna River (Guntur district), Rangapura RF (Kurnool district), Panapakkam, Madinikonda (Chittoor district), Chintaladevi (Nellore district)
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chitradurga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Aurangabad district, Buldhana district, Jalgaon district, Kolhapur district, Nanded district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Sangli district, Satara district, Solapur district, Thane district
• World Distribution : India
• 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; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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=Lophopogon tridentatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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