- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
- Basionym : Cyperus pygmaeus Rottb.
- Synonym(s) : Juncellus pygmaeus (Rottb.) C.B.Clarke
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus michelianus subsp. pygmaeus (Rottb.) Asch. & Graebn.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas
- Comments / notes : Frequent
- Flower, Fruit : June-February
- Collector(s) Name : Jarret, Saldanha & Ramamurthy
- Collection Date : 03-09-1970; 20-07-1970
- Collection Nos : HFP 597; KGB 28
- Collection Locality : Nagpuri, Hassan dist.; Bilikere, Mysore dist.
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Mysuru district, Hassan district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district< Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, BLD, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Ganjam district
- Native : India, Australia
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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 michelianus subsp. pygmaeus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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