• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Agrostis virginica L.
• Synonym(s) : Sporobolus humilis subsp. minor Veldkamp
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and mangrove forests
• Flower, Fruit : December-December
• Collection Nos : CS 19114
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Tropics and subtropics throughout the World
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Sporobolus virginicus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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