• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sporobolus piliferus (Trin.) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1200m, on exposed slopes, by rocks in thin layer of soil.
• Flower, Fruit : August-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : East Africa, Himalayas, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.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=Sporobolus piliferus. Downloaded on 3 May 2024.

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