• 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 indica L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Flower, Fruit : September-October
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 15855
• Collection Locality : Kempuhole (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia to Polynesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; 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 indica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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