• 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 paludosum Roxb.
• Vernacular name : Borati (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Paddy fields, wet places and still waters
• Comments / notes : Often on hills
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 12/11/2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-219
• Collection Locality : Talupula, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Aurangabad district, Beed district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nanded district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Puri district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, The Nilgiri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Tirunelveli district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Southeast Asia and tropical Australia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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 paludosum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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