• 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) : Urochloa panicoides P.Beauv.
• Vernacular name : Padhya (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded Evergreen forests and wasteland
• Comments / notes : Common on plains and lower slopes.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : GJ, KJR, KAL, DNKL
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruvannamalai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Thanjavur district, Tiruvallur district, Thoothkudi district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
• Native : Indian subcontinent, Africa
• World Distribution : Sudan to Yemen and southwards to South Africa, India, Pakistan; introduced to Australia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Bangalore; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Coorg
• 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=Urochloa panicoides. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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