Isachne albens

Isachne albens Trin., Sp. Gram. 1: t. 85 1827. (syn: Isachne albens var. albens ; Isachne albens var. elatiuscula (Ohwi) Jansen; Isachne albens var. glandulifera Keng; Isachne albens var. magna (Merr.) Jansen; Isachne apoensis Elmer; Isachne arisanensis Hayata; Isachne beneckei var. magna Merr.; Isachne elatiuscula Ohwi; Isachne griffithii Munro [Invalid]; Isachne hirsuta var. angusta W.Z.Fang; Isachne hirsuta var. yongxiouensis W.Z.Fang; Isachne latifolia Munro [Invalid]; Isachne magna (Merr.) Merr.; Isachne stricta Elmer; Panicum albens (Trin.) Steud.; Panicum saxatile Steud.; Panicum zollingeri Steud.);

Trop. & Subtrop. Old World as per WCSP;

Isachne albens is distributed in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and Nepal. In India it is known to occur in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Maharashtra (Sindhudurg), Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal (Cook 1996, Lakshminarasimhan, 1996). It has been recently reported from Andhra Pradesh (Visakhapatnam) (Reddy and Rao 2010).

Native: Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, West Bengal); Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Thailand

It is an perennial or perhaps sometimes annual it is not confined to wetlands but often found in wet places beside streams and in moist grassland and grows rarely in wet soils in open fields (Cook 1996, Lakshminarasimhan, 1996).

It is good fodder for cattle (Cook 1996).

Citation:

Kumar, B. 2011. Isachne albens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T177287A7406321. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T177287A7406321.en. Downloaded on 03 November 2017.