• 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) : Eragrostiella brachyphylla (Stapf) Bor
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Scrub forests
• Comments / notes : On plains, by wayside with other grass.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 26/06/2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-208
• Collection Locality : Vempalli, Kadapa district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Aurangabad district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, JGN, Nagpur district, Pune district, Satara district, Yavatmal district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India
• 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; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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=Eragrostiella brachyphylla. Downloaded on 1 May 2024.

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