• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Saccharum repens Willd.
• Synonym(s) : Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C.E.Hubb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka
• Vernacular name : Thoovalpullu (Malayalam); Chota-Kaglu, Kondas (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and grasslands, also in rocky terrains
• Comments / notes : Inroduced. Commonly cultivated in gardens, also on hills above 1000m on exposed slopes in discrete clumps
• Flower, Fruit : March-August
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Beed district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Palghar district, Ratnagiri district, Raigad district, Thane district, Sindhudurg district, Pune district, Satara district
• World Distribution : India, Africa, Pakistan; introduced to many other tropical countries.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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.; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore 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=Melinis repens. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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