- Family : POACEAE
(Grass Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
- Basionym : Panicum flavidum Retz.
- Synonym(s) : Panicum flavidum var. orarium Domin; Panicum floridum Royle; Panicum granulare Lam.; Paspalidium breviflorum Vickery; Paspalum villosum Náves ex Fern.-Vill.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Setaria flavida (Retz.) Veldkamp
- Vernacular name :
- Burad, Shedya (Marathi)
- Varakapullu (Malayalam)
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Paddy fields, banks of backwaters and streams
- Comments / notes : Common throughout in damp and moist places, on plains and on hills.
- Flower, Fruit : July-December
- Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha; B.R.Ramesh, Shivaprakash
- Collection Date : 27-08-1961, 18-07-1981
- Collection Nos : CS 6789, KFP 13257
- Collection Locality : Ahwa ghat, Dang, Gujarat; Siddlegundi, Uttara Kannada district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Kolar district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Tamil Nadu : Tamil Nadu
- Gujarat : Gujarat
- 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 Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Rodrigues, Réunion, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi,
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Rodrigues, Réunion, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Yemen
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- 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
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
- 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.: 299
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Paspalidium flavidum. Downloaded on 11 October 2024.
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