- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Acratherum miliaceum Link; Arundinella acratherum Nees ex Steud.; Arundinella ecklonii Nees; Arundinella ecklonii var. major C.E.Hubb.; Arundinella glabra Hook. & Arn.; Arundinella miliacea (Link) Nees; Arundinella nepalensis var. xerophila Ibaragi; Arundinella pilaxilis B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu; Arundinella pilomarginata B.S.Sun; Arundinella rigida Nees; Arundinella ritchei Munro ex Lisboa; Arundinella virgata Janowski; Orthopogon agrostoides Trevir. ex Steud.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arundinella nepalensis Trin.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands, open areas
- Comments / notes : Very rare
- Flower, Fruit : July-December
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha; F.M.Jarrett, T.P.Ramamoorthy
- Collection Date : 7-1-1970, 24-10-1970
- Collection Nos : CJS 15964, HFP 983
- Collection Locality : Yettinahalla, Hassan district; Before Panorama point, Bisle ghat, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chalama forest (Kurnool district)
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Free State, Guinea, Hainan, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal, Swaziland,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Free State, Guinea, Hainan, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 274-275
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arundinella nepalensis. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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