Garnotia tenella (Arn. ex Miq.) Jan.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Berghausia tenella Arn. ex Miq.; Garnotia asiatica Santos; Garnotia australindica Santos; Garnotia australindica var. travancorensis Santos; Garnotia brevifolia Ohwi; Garnotia ciliata Merr.; Garnotia ciliata var. conduplicata Santos; Garnotia ciliata var. glabriuscula Santos; Garnotia ciliata f. glabriuscula Santos; Garnotia ciliata f. latifolia Santos; Garnotia ciliata f. paupercula Santos; Garnotia conduplicata (Santos) Santos; Garnotia fragilis Santos; Garnotia fragilis var. brevifolia (Ohwi) Santos; Garnotia fragilis var. latior Santos; Garnotia fragilis var. parcitorta Santos; Garnotia fragilis var. radicans Santos; Garnotia linguiformis Santos; Garnotia muricola Santos; Garnotia muricola var. abuensis Santos; Garnotia muricola var. biswasii Santos; Garnotia muricola var. subappressa Santos; Garnotia nitens Santos; Garnotia pahangensis Santos; Garnotia parvispicula Santos; Garnotia purpurascens Santos; Garnotia purpurascens var. planiuscula Santos; Garnotia stricta var. breviaristata Stapf ex Hook.f.; Garnotia tenuis Santos; Garnotia tenuis var. angustata Santos; Garnotia yunnanensis B.S.Sun
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Garnotia tenella (Arn. ex Miq.) Janowski
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Wet rocky areas in grasslands, open places in forests
  • Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 900m in discrete clumps.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-December
  • Collector(s) Name : S.R.Ramesh, B.R.Ramesh
  • Collection Date : 16/11/1979
  • Collection Nos : KFP 10484
  • Collection Locality : Swamimalai, Sandur, Bellary district
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Solapur district
    • Odisha : Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Dhenkanal district, Keonjhar district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district
    • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district
    • Chattisgarh : Bastar district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • Henry, Chithra & Balakrishnan (1989). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 3
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 290-291
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Garnotia tenella. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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