• 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 iria L.
• Common name : Iria flatsedge
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded deciduous forests, marshy areas and paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Introduced in U.S.A and West Indies. Often on plains to about 1300m on hills in India
• Flower, Fruit : October-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, K. Sanakara Rao & Arun Singh; Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 19-11-2014; 15-11-2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-245; HJCB-E-229
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru RF, Chittoor district (AP); Batrepalli RF, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : All disricts of Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Plains from the coast; Balaghat and to 1300m on hills
• Native : Africa, Asia
• 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; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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; 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; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
• 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 iria. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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