• 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 haspan L.
• Vernacular name : Sheathed flat sedge
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Along banks of streams, paddy fields and marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Often on hills about 1500m.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankar Rao
• Collection Date : 26/10/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0197
• Collection Locality : Papavinasanam, Tirumala Hills, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Balaghat
• World Distribution : Tropical & sub-tropical regions of both hemispheres
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• 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; 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.
• 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 haspan. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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