- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Basionym : Panicum pumilum Poir.
- Synonym(s) : Panicum glaucum var. pumilum (Poir.) Asch. & Graebn.; Panicum imberbe var. pumilum (Poir.) Nees; Setaria glauca var. pumila (Poir.) Hegi; Setaria lutescens f. pumila (Poir.) Soó
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult.
- Common name : Yellow Fx-tail Grass, Yellow bristlegrass
- Vernacular name :
- Bindi, Kolara, Kolu, Kolwa (Marathi)
- Nakkatoka gaddi (Telugu)
- Kambilippullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Degraded Tropical moist deciduous forests, grasslands and wasteland
- Comments / notes : Common in all grasslands and cultivated fields.
- Flower, Fruit : July-November
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; Cecil J. Saldanha, Maqsood, Bhaskar, Ramesh
- Collection Date : 2-1-2016, 5-11-2014, 28-1-1978
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-336, HJCB-E-0190, KFP 44
- Collection Locality : Mabbuchintalapalli, Kadapa; Aluru kona, Anantapur district; Kanakapura-Sangam road, Bangalore district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district, Bengaluru district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central Afri
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, East European Russia, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Islands, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northwest European R, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- 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
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 310
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Setaria pumila. 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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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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