- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Basionym : Panicum ciliare Retz.
- Synonym(s) : Digitaria marginata Link
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler
- Common name : Henry's crabgrass
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, grasslands and waste places
- Comments / notes : Common throughout in bushes and hedges
- Flower, Fruit : July-February
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha, T.P. Ramamoorthy
- Collection Date : 26-08-1961, 09-07-1970
- Collection Nos : CS 6699, HFP 348
- Collection Locality : Waghai, Gujarat; Kenchankumri state forest, Shiradi ghat, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Gujarat : Gujarat
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
- Native : Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Ascension, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gambia, Gh
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Ascension, Azores, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Kuril Islands, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lakshadweep Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Uganda, Vietnam, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- 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
- 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., 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.: 284
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Digitaria ciliaris. Downloaded on 8 October 2024.
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