Herbarium JCB

Saccharum spontaneum L.

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) : Saccharum spontaneum L.
Common name : Thatch grass, Wild sugar cane, Kans Grass
Vernacular name : Rellugaddi (Telugu); Bagberi, Kamis (Marathi); Choottapullu, Kusa, Kusadarbha, Kuruvikarimbu, Nannana, Njangan (Malayalam)
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Wetlands
Comments / notes : Very common along stream banks, near arable lands etc.
Flower, Fruit : September-March
Collection Date : 28/02/17
Collection Nos : HJCB 960
Collection Locality : Similipahar Tiger Reserve Forest, Odisha
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district Bidar district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : KMTR (Tirunelveli district)
World Distribution : Old World tropics
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; 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.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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=Saccharum spontaneum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.