• 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 malaccensis Lam.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Banks of backwaters and mangrove forests
• Comments / notes : In marshy areas, near tidal creeks and mangroves
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : S.S. Hooper & Saldanha
• Collection Nos : HFP 2534
• Collection Locality : Mangalore, DKD
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi; 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 malaccensis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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