Thalia Lovegrass
Eragrostis atrovirens
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Assam, Rajasthan & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Thalia Lovegrass
Identify Thalia Lovegrass 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 fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Meghalaya, Assam, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Thalia Lovegrass.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Eragrostis atrovirens
- Genus
- Eragrostis
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- River banks, grasslands and dry deciduous forests
- Native to
- Paleotropics
- Distribution
- North Africa to Zambia and Angola; India, Pakistan, Mauritania to Philippines, Pakistan
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Assam, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- 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
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Thalia Lovegrass itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Thalia Lovegrass
Thalia Lovegrass (Eragrostis atrovirens) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya, Assam, Rajasthan and 10 other states. It grows in river banks, grasslands and dry deciduous forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Thalia Lovegrass belongs to the Poaceae family.
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