• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Echinolaena polystachya Kunth
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Stapf
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along margins of forests
• Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats above 1200m, on shola floor, in moist and shady places in forest clearings
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 570, CJS 15465
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : Old & New World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Pseudechinolaena polystachya. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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