• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Carex caricina (D.Don) Ghildyal & U.C.Bhattach.; Carex glaucina Boeckeler
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Carex filicina Nees
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : All forest types
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m, on shola floors, by stream banks etc.
• Flower, Fruit : July-August
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao
• Collection Date : 04/10/1970
• Collection Nos : R.R.Rao 980
• Collection Locality : B.R. Hills, Chamarajanagar district (KA)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nagpur district, Kolhapur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• Native : Southeast Asia
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka
• 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. ; Carex caricina (D.Don) Ghildyal & U.C.Bhattach.; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; 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 filicina. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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