• 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 rubicundus Vahl
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 750m.
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Hooper, Gandhi
• Collection Date : 13-11-1971
• Collection Nos : HFP 2487
• Collection Locality : Belvathally, HSN dist
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Chikkamagaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune 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 : Africa, Arabia, India, Malaysia, Australia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan dist.; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg dist.; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere dist.
• 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 rubicundus. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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