• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Carex baccans Nees
• Common name : Crimson Seeded Sedge
• Vernacular name : Cherukorappullu (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in shade of shrubs and trees along Ghats.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district, Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Carex baccans. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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