• 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) : Sporobolus coromandelianus (Retz.) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub jungles
• Comments / notes : Often on plains.
• Flower, Fruit : November-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 09/12/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 41979
• Collection Locality : Gollalaguduru, Kadapa distict (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Jalgaon district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nanded district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Sangli district, Satara district, Solapur district, Yavatmal district
• World Distribution : Old World tropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.2. Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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=Sporobolus coromandelianus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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