- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Basionym : Panicum villosum Lam.
- Synonym(s) : Brachiaria coccosperma (Steud.) Stapf ex Reeder; Brachiaria distichophylla (Trin.) Stapf; Brachiaria villosa var. barbata Bor; Brachiaria villosa var. glaberrima Basappa & Muniy.; Brachiaria villosa var. glabrata S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin; Brachiaria villosa f. glabriglumis (Ohwi) Ohwi; Brachiaria villosa var. glabriglumis Ohwi; Panicum careyanum Nees; Panicum cartilagineum Nees; Panicum coccospermum Steud.; Panicum despreauxii Steud.; Panicum distichophyllum Trin.; Panicum nanum Royle ex Steud.; Panicum pauperulum Steud.; Panicum serrulatum Schumach.; Panicum vestitum Nees ex Steud.; Panicum viviparum Schumach.; Urochloa villosa var. barbata (Bor) Noltie; Urochloa villosa var. glaberrima (Basappa & Muniy.) S.K.Jain
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Urochloa villosa (Lam.) T.Q.Nguyen
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Key identification features : Annual grass; culms slender, softly hairy; Leaves ovate or ovate-Ianceolate, softly pubescent; sheaths hairy; ligule a ring of hairs; Panicle spreading; axis triquetrous, pubescent; spikelets crowded, biseriate, ovate-apiculate, pubescent.
- Flower, Fruit : May-November
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Malappuram 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 : Benin, Bhutan, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nig
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Benin, Bhutan, Burkina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South China Sea, Sudan, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zaïre
- Literature :
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 276-277
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Brachiaria villosa. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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India Distribution
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