• 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 pangorei Rottb.
• Vernacular name : Lahul (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, river banks and pools
• Comments / notes : Often on hills.
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : Sep. 2011
• Collection Nos : FAP 39005; FAP 37960
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli RF, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kolleru lake (West Godavari district), Anantapur district, Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Tamil Nadu : Plains from the coast, foothills and on Balaghat
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan dist; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg dist; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi dist; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 pangorei. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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