Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers.

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Kaduthene hullu (Kannada)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Grasslands
  • Comments / notes : Occasional in plains to about 1300m.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-November
  • Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh; Raja K. Swamy; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh; Raja K. Swamy; T.P.Ramamoorthy; B.Gurudev Singh, B.Udaya Kumar, S.Udaya Kumar
  • Collection Date : 26-11-2014, 11-2009, 25-10-2014, 11-2009, 09-07-1970, 06-06-1982
  • Collection Nos : HJCB-E-254, HJCB-E-204, HJCB 0061, HJCB-E-204, HFP 326, KFP 14577
  • Collection Locality : Palamner forest range, Chittoor district; Mabbuchintalapalli, Kadapa district; K.P. Dam, Tirumala, Chittoor district; Mabbuchintalapalli, Kadapa district; Yethinahalla, Shiradi ghat, Hassan district; Devkar, near Kodasalli, Uttara Kannada district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district, Kadapa district
    • Karnataka : Kolar district, Hassan district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, JGN, Kolhapur district, Nanded district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
    • Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
  • Native : Andaman Islands, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Hainan, India,
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Old World Tropics; introduced in New World
  • 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
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
    • 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.: 284-285
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Digitaria longiflora. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.

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