• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Andropogon caesius Hook. & Arn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cymbopogon caesius (Hook. & Arn.) Stapf
• Common name : Kachi grass
• Vernacular name : Sambarapullu (Malayalam); Kasigaddi, Kamanchi gaddi (Telugu)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, foothills of deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : It yeilds an aromatic oil
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K.Swamy & B. Sadasivaiah
• Collection Date : 02/10/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 40334
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Kolar district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Arabia, East Africa, Sudan to South Africa
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; 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.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cymbopogon caesius. Downloaded on 2 May 2024.

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