Herbarium JCB

Arundinella ciliata (Roxb.) Nees ex Miq.

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) : Arundinella ciliata (Roxb.) Nees ex Miq.
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Grasslands and road cuttings
Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1000m, often on rocks on thin layer of soil, sometimes gregarious.
Flower, Fruit : September-December
Collector(s) Name : C.J. Saldanha; F.M. Jarrett, C.J. Saldanha & T.P. Ramamoorthy; Raja K. Swamy & Noel Sebastian
Collection Date : 9-12-1969; 9-10-1970; 24-11-2018
Collection Nos : CJS 15760; HFP 941; HJCB-1790
Collection Locality : Peak above Byagadahalli, Hassan district; Before Kempuhole camp, Hassan district, Karnataka; Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Horsley hill, Hosley konda (Chittoor district), Cherukonda (Vishakapatnam district)
- Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
Endemism : Peninsular India
World Distribution : India
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah, T., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 3.; 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 – Flora of Hassan district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Herbarium specimen from Munnar, Idukki district, Kerala
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=Arundinella ciliata. Downloaded on 17 May 2024.