- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Cynodon ternatus A.Rich.; Panicum ternatum (A.Rich.) Steud.; Paspalum ternatum (A.Rich.) Hook.f.; Syntherisma ternata (A.Rich.) Newbould; Digitaria argyrostachya (Steud.) Fernald; Digitaria argyrostachya var. glabrescens (Buse) Henrard; Digitaria argyrostachya var. hirticulmis Henrard; Digitaria ropalotricha Buse; Digitaria ropalotricha var. glabrescens Buse; Digitaria ternata f. glabrispicula (Fiori) Cufod.; Panicum argyrostachyum Steud.; Panicum phaeocarpum Nees; Panicum phaeocarpum var. gracile Nees; Panicum ropalotrichum (Buse) Koord.; Panicum ternatum f. glabrispiculum Fiori; Syntherisma argyrostachya (Steud.) Hitchc. & Chase
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Digitaria ternata (A.Rich.) Stapf
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grasslands
- Comments / notes : Common on hills up to 1100m. Grows on rocky soils.
- Flower, Fruit : August-February
- Collection Nos : HFP 537
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Pathanamthitta district
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Raigad district, Sangli district, Solapur district, Thane district, Wardha district, Yavatmal district
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, M
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Ghana, Guinea, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
- N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
- 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 J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 285
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Digitaria ternata. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Habitat
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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