• 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) : Tripogon bromoides Roth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Rocky grasslands
• Comments / notes : Grows in clefts of rocks or on old walls. On hills above 1000m, in shallow soil around rocks.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collection Nos : HFP 1078, HFP 1727, CJS 13551
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Beed district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Raigad district, Sangli district, Satara district, Solapur district
  • Odisha : Koraput district
• World Distribution : India, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; 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=Tripogon bromoides. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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