• 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 difformis L.
• Common name : Small-flower Umbrella Sedge
• Vernacular name : Karisannajambi hullu (Kannada); Laval (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas and paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to about 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common in wet grounds
• Native : Southern Europe, India, Africa
• World Distribution : Tropical & sub-tropical regions of both hemispheres
• 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; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; 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 difformis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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