• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Panicum polystachyon L.
• Synonym(s) : Pennisetum setosum (Sw.) L.C. Rich.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult.
• Common name : Mission Grass
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forests and waste places
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : April-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3; 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=Pennisetum polystachion. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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