- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Calamagrostis lagurus Koeler; Lagurus cylindricus L.; Saccharum cylindricum (L.) Lam.; Saccharum europaeum Pers.; Imperata cylindrica var. latifolia (Hook.f.) C.E.Hubb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch.
- Vernacular name :
- Sanna dabbe hullu (Kannada)
- Dub (Marathi)
- Vidulam, Darbha, darbhapullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Used for thatching, also grazed by cattle; On plains and hills forming dense mats in low-lying fallow ground and by roadsides
- Key identification features : Perennial grass with creeping rootstock; culms fistular at base, otherwise solid; nodes densely bearded; Leaf-sheaths slightly pubescent; ligule dorsally silky; Panicle cylindric; pedicels swollen at tips, whitish hairy; spikelets lanceolate.
- Flower, Fruit : March-November
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 26-05-1969, 04-02-1960
- Collection Nos : CJS 13558, CS 4916
- Collection Locality : Hassan town; Palni hills
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Y.S.R. Kadapa district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru Urban district, Bengaluru Rural district, Davanagere district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nanded district, Osmanabad district, Parbhani district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Tirap
- Delhi : Delhi
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Punjab : Punjab
- Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, E
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Baleares, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kriti, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
- N.P.Singh, 1988-Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4.
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 292
- Read more :
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- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Imperata cylindrica var. major. Downloaded on 30 January 2026.
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