- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Synonym(s) : Andropogon contortus L.; Heteropogon contortus var. hirtus Hack.; Heteropogon hirtus Pers.; Holcus contortus (L.) Stuck.; Sorghum contortum (L.) Kuntze
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Heteropogon contortus (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Common name : Tangle head Grass, Spear grass
- Vernacular name :
- Oobu hullu, Gandu bin (Kannada)
- Oopu gaddi, Eragaddi (Telugu)
- Kali Kusali, Kursali, Nanisunkhali, Pandhri Sukal (Marathi)
- Oosipullu, Shoolampullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Open deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Common in open grasslands. On foothills to 1200m and slopes. Often the seeds gets entangled in clothes.
- Flower, Fruit : July-December
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh; Cecil J. Saldanha
- Collection Date : 15-11-2014, 28-11-2014, 19-12-1968
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-233, HJCB 0398, CJS 11923
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district; Tirumala hills, Chittoor district; Arsikere-Tiptur road, Hassan district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Throughout Odisha
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Lakshadweep : Lakshadweep
- Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Argentina, Arizona, Baleares, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, C
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Tropical and warm Temperate regions.
- 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
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
- Gowda, 2004 – Flora of Sringeri
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
- Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- 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.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 291
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Heteropogon contortus. Downloaded on 8 December 2024.
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