Herbarium JCB

Sporobolus diander (Retz.) P.Beauv.

Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
Synonym(s) : Sporobolus indicus var. flaccidus (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp; Sporobolus indicus var. Diander (Retz.) Jovet & Guédès
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sporobolus diandrus (Retz.) P.Beauv.
Common name : Drop seed Grass
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Moist deciduous forests and wasteland
Comments / notes : Common along road-sides and in wastelands.
Key identification features : A tufted grass. Leaves flat or involute; ligule a fringe of hairs. Panicle pyramidal; branches spreading, with many small spikelets arranged racemosely along the axis. Spikelets c. 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 2. Grain c. 0.6 mm. long, obovoid, coarsely pitted.
Flower, Fruit : July-December
Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy; Raja K. Swamy
Collection Date : 21-11-2010; 15-11-2014
Collection Nos : HFP 618, HFP 1828, R R Rao 1733, HFP 363, FAP 40344; HJCB-E-36
Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP); Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
Distribution :
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
Native : India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan
World Distribution : Indo-Malesia to Australia
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished); Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.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=Sporobolus diander. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.