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Family • Gramineae / Poaceae
Gingetkaran
Hackelochloa granularis O. Kuntze
PITSCALE GRASS
Hai shi cao

Scientific names Common names
Cenchrus granularis Linn. Gingetkaran (Bag.)
Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze Pitscale grass (Engl.)
Manisuris granularis (L.) L.f.  
Manisuris granularis L.  
Manisuris polystachya P.Beauv.  
Mnesithea granularis (L.) de Koning & Sosef  
Rottboellia granularis (L.) Roberty  
Rytilix glandulosa Raf.  
Rytilix granularis (L.) Skeels  
Tripsacum granulare (L.) Raspail  
Hackelochloa granularis is an accepted name. The Plant List

Other vernacular names
CHINESE: Zhu sui cao, Hai shi cao, Qiu sui cao.
HINDI: Trinpali (kangni).
SPANISH: Zacate granito.

Botany
Gingetkaran is a grass with stems 20 to 60 centimeters high, erect, at length much-branched and softly hairy. Leaves are 5 to 15 centimeters long, 0.5 to 1.2 centimeters wide, flat, hairy on both surfaces, the margins ciliate. Spikes are 1 to 2 centimeters long and slender, resembling a string of minute beads. Sessile spikelets are 1 to 2 millimeters long, about 1 millimeter in diameter; the pedicellate ones are equal in length to the sessile or longer of the two equal green glumes.

Distribution
- From the Batanes Islands to Mindanao, in most islands and provinces, in disturbed soil, open waste places, old clearings, etc, at low and medium altitudes.
- Pantropic.

Uses
Folkloric
- In India, whole plant parts used as hepatogenic or hepatoprotective.
- In Behar, prescribed internally, with a little sweet oil, in cases of enlarged spleen and liver.
- In India, used for anal fistula (fistula-in-ano).

Studies
• No studies found.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Last Update November 2016
IMAGE SOURCE: Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / pitscale grass / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. / USDA
IMAGE SOURCE: Photograph / Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / Zacate granito / click on image to go to source page /
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Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / Chinese names / Catalogue of Life, China
(2)
Medicinal Plants Against Liver Diseases / Pandey Govind / IRJP 2(5) 2011, pp 115-121
(3)
Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / Synonyms / The Plant List
(4)
Majith (Manjith) based Indigenous Herbal Medicines for Anal Fistula or Bhagandar / Pankaj Oudhia's Medicinal Plant Database / Pankaj Oudhia /

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