Arundinella nepalensis Trin.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Acratherum miliaceum Link; Arundinella acratherum Nees ex Steud.; Arundinella ecklonii Nees; Arundinella ecklonii var. major C.E.Hubb.; Arundinella glabra Hook. & Arn.; Arundinella miliacea (Link) Nees; Arundinella nepalensis var. xerophila Ibaragi; Arundinella pilaxilis B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu; Arundinella pilomarginata B.S.Sun; Arundinella rigida Nees; Arundinella ritchei Munro ex Lisboa; Arundinella virgata Janowski; Orthopogon agrostoides Trevir. ex Steud.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Arundinella nepalensis Trin.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Grasslands, open areas
  • Comments / notes : Very rare
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha; F.M.Jarrett, T.P.Ramamoorthy
  • Collection Date : 7-1-1970, 24-10-1970
  • Collection Nos : CJS 15964, HFP 983
  • Collection Locality : Yettinahalla, Hassan district; Before Panorama point, Bisle ghat, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Chalama forest (Kurnool district)
    • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : Wayanad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district
    • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Angola, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Free State, Guinea, Hainan, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal, Swaziland,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Angola, Australia, Bhutan, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, China, Free State, Guinea, Hainan, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.
    • 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
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 274-275
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Arundinella nepalensis. Downloaded on 9 December 2024.

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