Sporobolus diander (Retz.) P.Beauv.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Agrostis diandra Retz.; Sporobolus indicus var. diandrus (Retz.) Jovet & Guédès; Vilfa diandra (Retz.) Trin.; Vilfa retzii Steud.; Agrostis dianthera Schult. & Schult.f.; Agrostis elongata var. flaccida Roth; Spermachiton involutum Llanos; Sporobolus diandrus var. nanus Hook.f.; Sporobolus indicus var. flaccidus (Roth) Veldkamp; Sporobolus trimenii Senaratna; Vilfa erosa Trin.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Sporobolus diandrus (Retz.) P.Beauv.
  • Common name : Drop seed Grass
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests and wasteland
  • Comments / notes : Common along road-sides and in wastelands.
  • Key identification features : A tufted grass. Leaves flat or involute; ligule a fringe of hairs. Panicle pyramidal; branches spreading, with many small spikelets arranged racemosely along the axis. Spikelets c. 1.5 mm. long. Stamens 2. Grain c. 0.6 mm. long, obovoid, coarsely pitted.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-December
  • Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; R.Raghavendra Rao; T.P.Ramamoorthy
  • Collection Date : 21-11-2010, 15-11-2014, 08-02-1972, 10-07-1970
  • Collection Nos : SKU 40344, HJCB-E-364, KFP 1733, HFP 363
  • Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district; Batrepalli, Anantapur district; Base of M.M.hills, Mysuru district; Byrapura, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
    • Odisha : Odisha
    • Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Siang
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Punjab : Punjab
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Seychelles, Socotra, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, China, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Seychelles, Socotra, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
    • Balakrishna Gowda & A.N. Sringesh 2004 – Sringeri (checklist unpublished)
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi
    • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
    • 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., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.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.: 310
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Sporobolus diander. Downloaded on 14 December 2024.

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