- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Anthistiria heteroclita Roxb.
- Synonym(s) : Pseudanthistiria intermedia Birari & D'Cruz
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.) Hook.f.
- Vernacular name : Pokalya, Phulada (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : A good fodder grass.
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collection Nos : KFP 3705
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Mysuru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Thrissur district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Buldhana district
- World Distribution : India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; 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=Pseudanthistiria heteroclita. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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