• 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) : Cyperus rotundus subsp. tuberosus (Rottb.) Kuk.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cyperus rotundus L.
• Common name : Nut grass, Purple flat sedge
• Vernacular name : Nagarmotha, Motha (Hindi); Badra mushti, Tunge hullu, Jai (Kannada); Mustaka (Sanskrit); Tunga (Telugu); Karimuttan, Kuzhimuthanga, Muthanga (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Plains
• Comments / notes : Very common
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common weed (Puri district, Ganjam district, Khurda district, Mayurbhanj district)
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam 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.; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan dist.; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga dist.; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore dist.; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg dist.; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi dist.; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere dist.; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• 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 rotundus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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