- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Coix gigantea subsp. aquatica (Roxb.) Bhattacharya; Coix gigantea var. aquatica (Roxb.) Watt; Coix lacryma-jobi f. aquatica (Roxb.) Backer; Coix gigantea J.Koenig ex Roxb.; Coix lingulata Hack.; Coix poilanei Mimeur
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Coix aquatica Roxb.
- Vernacular name :
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Flower, Fruit : September-February
- Distribution :
- Kerala : Kozhikode district, Idukki district, Palakkad district
- Maharashtra : Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Buldhana district, Bhandara district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
- Odisha : Balasore district, Khurda district, Koraput district, Bargarh district, Bolangir district, Mayurbhanj district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
- 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
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Coix aquatica. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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