Naktura / Tiger Grass
Thysanolaena latifolia
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Naktura
Identify Naktura 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.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Broad leaves, large plume-like inflorescence used for brooms (tiger grass).
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Naktura.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Thysanolaena latifolia
- Genus
- Thysanolaena
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Garden plant
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Distribution
- India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia
- Found in India
- Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Nagaland, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura
- 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 Naktura itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Naktura, Nastura, amliso
- Bengali
- Phul jhanta
- Telugu
- konda, cheepuru, gaddi
- Kannada
- Konda cheepuru
About Naktura
A member of the Poaceae family, Tiger Grass (Thysanolaena latifolia) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and 19 other states. It grows in garden plant. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Naktura belongs to the Poaceae family.
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