• 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) : Panicum maximum Jacq.
• Common name : Guinea Grass
• Vernacular name : Ginipullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Cultivated as fodder grass
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains and on hills. Often cultivated or as an escape.
• Flower, Fruit : July-October
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arung Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 28/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0390
• Collection Locality : Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantagiri Hills (Vishakapatnam district), Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Mandya district
  • Kerala : Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Aurangabad district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sangli district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Pakistan; introduced to most other warm countries
• 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; 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=Panicum maximum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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