Sacciolepis myosuroides (R.Br.) A.Camus

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
  • Basionym : Panicum myosuroides R.Br.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sacciolepis myosuroides (R.Br.) A.Camus
  • Vernacular name : Pkalia, Kara-lom (Marathi)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Ditches and marshes
  • Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to about 1250m.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-February
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Chandrapur district, Nanded district, Osmanabad district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Yavatmal district
  • World Distribution : Tropics of Asia and Australia
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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.
  • 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=Sacciolepis myosuroides. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.

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