• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Panicum montanum Roxb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Panicum notatum Retz.
• Vernacular name : Jokarband (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and sacred groves
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hill slopes.
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Collector(s) Name : S.B. Manohar & S.R. Ramesh; S.R. Ramesh & B.R. Ramesh
• Collection Date : 14-05-1979; 16-11-1979
• Collection Nos : KFP 7522; KFP 10494
• Collection Locality : Kyatdevaragudi, B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA) ; Swamymalai, Sandur Hills, Bellary districts (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Ballari district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Tropics of South and Southeast Asia, Nepal
• 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; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam 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.; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 notatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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