Herbarium JCB

Cyperus compressus L.

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 compressus L.
Vernacular name : Vusumani hullu (Kannada)
Habit : Herb
Habitat : Along banks of river and wasteland
Comments / notes : On hills about 1000m; along streams, fallow fields
Flower, Fruit : September-January
Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
Collection Date : 02-01-2016; 15-11-2010
Collection Nos : HJCB-E-342; FAP 37858
Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP); Rachakuntapalle, Kadapa district (AP)
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Kalhandi district, Sambalpur district
World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
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 compressus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.