• 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 articulatus L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Often on plains and mostly in moist places
• Flower, Fruit : October-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Bidar district, Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Ernakulam district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Shevaroy Hills (Salem district)
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : 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. ; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere; 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 articulatus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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