• Family : POACEAE
  (Grass Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : POACEAE
• Basionym : Nardus thomaea L.f.
• Synonym(s) : Rottboellia thomaea (L.f.) Koenig
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On old walls, roofs and on bare rocky soil
• Comments / notes : Occasional in dry places on plains.
• Key identification features : Small, densely tufted grass, usually orbicular in outline
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 15/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-239
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kolar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Aurangabad district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Sangli district, Satara district, Solapur district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Pakistan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Mysore
• 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=Oropetium thomaeum. Downloaded on 2 May 2024.

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