• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Zoysia pungens Willd.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Banks fo backwaters, streams and lakes and mangrove forests
• Comments / notes : Often as green patches on sandy soil.
• Flower, Fruit : March-September
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, RNK, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : All districts of Tamil Nadu
• World Distribution : Indo-Malaysia, China, RyuKyu Islands, Mauritius
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; 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.; Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. .
• 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=Zoysia matrella. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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