• 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) : Mariscus paniceus (Rottb.) Vahl
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus paniceus (Rottb.) Boeckeler
• Vernacular name : Poongorai (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded forests
• Comments / notes : Often on plains and hills.
• Flower, Fruit : August-November
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Plains and hills
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malesia
• 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. ; 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 paniceus. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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