Lampa / Love Grass
Chrysopogon aciculatus
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Assam, West Bengal, Kerala & more
- Flowering
- August-October
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Chrysopogon aciculatus
- Genus
- Chrysopogon
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Asia, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Malaysia, Polynesia, Australia
- Found in India
- Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-October
- 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 arrangement
- PaniclerecordedA branching cluster of clusters.“The panicles are purplish, open and with few whorled branches and can reach about 5 centimeters long, bearing few-flowered spikes.” — 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 Lampa itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Lampa, Surwala
- Nepali
- घोडे दुबो Ghode Dubo, कुरे घाँस Kure Ghaans
- Bengali
- chorkanta, চোরকাঁটা
- Tamil
- Kampuputpi, Amaraputpi
- Kannada
- ಚೋರಪುಷ್ಪಿ Chorapushpi, ಶಂಖಿನಿ Shankhini, ಕೇಶಿನಿ Keshini ಹಗರ Hagara
- Malayalam
- kudira-pullu, കുറുക്കൻ പുല്ല്
- Assamese
- বনগুটি
About Lampa
Love Grass (Chrysopogon aciculatus) belongs to the Poaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and 8 other states. It grows in degraded dry and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains. Flowering and fruiting run from August to October.
Poaceae
Grass family
Lampa belongs to the Poaceae family.
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