• 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) : Cyperus arenarius Retz.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Sandy beaches
• Comments / notes : Often on hills and plains.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Balasore district, Puri district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common on beaches (No specific location)
• Native : Asia
• World Distribution : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cochinchina, Iran
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 arenarius. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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