Abstract
Themeda odishae (Poaceae), a new species from the Mahendragiri hill ranges, Odisha (Orissa), India, is described and illustrated. It differs from T. mooneyi in shorter and hairy leaf blades, longer peduncle, length of sessile spikelet callus, number of pedicelled spikelets, and longer anthers. And from T. saxicola by its longer peduncle, number of racemes, number of pedicelled spikelets and hairy involucral spikelets.