• 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 pilosus Vahl
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 800m.
• Flower, Fruit : May-November
• Collector(s) Name : Nicolson, Hooper, Saldanha, Gandhi
• Collection Date : 24-10-1971
• Collection Nos : HFP 2296
• Collection Locality : Bannuhalla, HSN dist.
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Koraput district, Dhenkanal district, Bolangir district, Mayurbhanj district, Sambalpur district, Ganjam district, Cuttack district
  • Tamil Nadu : Hills above 800m
• World Distribution : Tropical Asia, Australia, West Africa
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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 pilosus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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