• 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 capillatus Jaub. & Spach
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Rocky grasslands
• Comments / notes : Grows on bark of old trees and on old walls.
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collection Nos : HFP 822, CJS 17964
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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; 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=Tripogon capillatus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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