• 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 eleusinoides Kunth
• Synonym(s) : Cyperus nutans subsp. eleusinoides (Kunth) Koyama
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus nutans var. eleusinoides (Kunth) Haines
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Flower, Fruit : August-February
• Collector(s) Name : Saldanha
• Collection Date : 11-11-1971
• Collection Nos : HFP 2420
• Collection Locality : Mokali on road to Konnanur
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Chitradurga district, Kolar district, Bidar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Malaysia, Australia, Ryukyu
• 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state; 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 nutans var. eleusinoides. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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