• 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 stoloniferus Retz.
• Vernacular name : Koraikizhanghu (Tamil)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Banks of streams
• Comments / notes : Occasional on plains.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, UDK
  • Kerala : Alappuzha district, Kannur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruvallur district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Australia, India, Sri lanka, China, Mauritius, Malaysia, Madagascar
• 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore dist.; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora or Udupi dist.; 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 stoloniferus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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