- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Arthraxon micans (Nees) Hochst.; Arthraxon quartinianus (A.Rich.) Nash
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arthraxon hispidus (Thunb.) Makino
- Vernacular name :
- Vanguaria, Vanguarin (Marathi)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Grasslands
- Flower, Fruit : August-March
- Collector(s) Name : F.M.Jarrett, T.P.Ramamoorthy; Cecil J. Saldanha, P.Prakash; S.R.Ramesh, K.R.Keshava Murthy
- Collection Date : 24-10-1970, 24-10-1978, 2-12-1978
- Collection Nos : HFP 985, KFP 3408, KFP 4802
- Collection Locality : Bisle ghat, Hassan district; Kottur, Dharwad district; Dattatreya peetha, Chikkamagaluru district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district, Gajapati district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Manchuria, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre
- 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, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- 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.
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 273
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arthraxon hispidus. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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