- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
- Basionym : Stegosia cochinchinensis Lour.
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton
- Common name : Itchgrass
- Vernacular name : Bura, Birsali (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, grasslands and wastelands
- Flower, Fruit : September-December
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy & Arun Singh
- Collection Date : 13/09/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-213
- Collection Locality : Javadu Hills, Tiruvannamalai district (TN)
- Distribution :
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Beed district, Buldhana district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Sangli district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- World Distribution : Paleotropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; 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=Rottboellia cochinchinensis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.
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