- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Imperata spontanea (L.) P.Beauv.; Saccharifera spontanea (L.) Stokes; Saccharum spontaneum subsp. indicum Hack.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Saccharum spontaneum L.
- Common name : Thatch grass, Wild sugar cane, Kans Grass
- Vernacular name :
- Rellugaddi (Telugu)
- Bagberi, Kamis (Marathi)
- Choottapullu, Kusa, Kusadarbha, Kuruvikarimbu, Nannana, Njangan (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Wetlands
- Comments / notes : Very common along stream banks, near arable lands etc.
- Flower, Fruit : September-March
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Navendu Page, Ravichandran V.; K.P.Sreenath, S.R.Ramesh
- Collection Date : 28-02-2017, 16-11-1978
- Collection Nos : HJCB 960, KFP 4390
- Collection Locality : Similipahar Tiger Reserve Forest, Odisha; Neermanvi, Raichur district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Ballari district Bidar district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : KMTR (Tirunelveli district)
- Puducherry : Puducherry
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Subansiri
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Algeria, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, K
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Old World tropics
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI
- 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.
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 305
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Saccharum spontaneum. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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