• 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 repens L.
• Common name : Couch Panicu, Creeping Panic, Torpedo Grass, Victoria Grass
• Vernacular name : Sonthi gaddi (Telugu); Moonja pullu (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands, marshy areas of grasslands and wastelands
• Flower, Fruit : July-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nanded district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sangli district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Tropics and sub-tropics
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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 repens. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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