Setaria forbesiana (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Basionym : Panicum forbesianum Nees ex Steud.
  • Synonym(s) : Chaetochloa forbesiana (Nees ex Steud.) Keng; Chamaeraphis forbesiana (Nees ex Steud.) Kuntze; Setaria dubia Keng f. & K.D.Yu; Setaria forbesiana var. breviseta S.L.Chen & G.Y.Sheng
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Setaria forbesiana (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Probably a recent introduction, naturalised along river banks
  • Key identification features : Perennial herbs; culms erect with stout rhizomes, leafy just below the inflorescence; Leaves hairy; leaf-sheaths scarious below, keeled, ciliate at margin; ligule silky hairy; Panicle pyramidal; spikelets ovoid, seated on very short peduncles.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-December
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Ballari district
    • Maharashtra : Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban 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 : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 308-309
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Setaria forbesiana. Downloaded on 4 October 2024.

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