• 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) : Juncellus alopecuroides (Rottboell) C.B. Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus alopecuroides Rottboell
• Common name : Umbrella Sedge, Fostail Sedge, Matsedge
• Vernacular name : Santara (Oria)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy swamps
• Comments / notes : Occasional along margins of ponds
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collection Nos : HFP 1421, CJS 15701, HFP 2114
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Hassan district, Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Davanagare district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
• Native : Tropical Africa, Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : India, Africa from Mediterranean to the tropics, Madagascar, India to Queensland, West Indies
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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=Cyperus alopecuroides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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