• 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) : Cyperus alternifolius subsp. flabelliformis Kük.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus involucratus Rottb.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grown as ornamental plant
• Comments / notes : Cultivated, introduced and naturalized in India
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district
  • Odisha : Cultivated
• Native : Tropical Africa, Arabia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; 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 flabelliformis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description