• 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) : Juncellus laevigatus (L.) C. B. Clarke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus laevigatus L.
• Common name : Smooth Flatsedge
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands
• Flower, Fruit : September-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : Dec. 2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-202
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Buldhana district, Dhule district, Nashik district, Pune district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Plains and on Balaghat
• Endemism : India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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.
• 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 laevigatus. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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