Gondvel / Finger Grass
Chloris barbata
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- August-December
How to identify Gondvel
Identify Gondvel by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm flower colour: Purple.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-December.
- In India, compare location records such as Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Gondvel.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Chloris barbata
- Genus
- Chloris
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded forests, wasteland and riversides
- Distribution
- Tropics of the World
- Found in India
- Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- PurplerecordedPurple or violet“Chloris inflata), the swollen fingergrass or purpletop chloris, is a widespread species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Gondvel itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Tamil
- Chevvarakupul, Kotai-p-pul, Kuruthu pillu
- Kannada
- hennu-manchadakalu hullu, sevaragu
- Malayalam
- konda-pullu, മയിൽപ്പുല്ല്
- Marathi
- gondvel, tan
About Gondvel
Finger Grass (Chloris barbata) belongs to the Poaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and 14 other states. It grows in degraded forests, wasteland and riversides. Flowering and fruiting run from August to December.
Poaceae
Grass family
Gondvel belongs to the Poaceae family.
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