• 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) : Eleocharis dulcis (Burm.f.) Trin. ex Hensch.
• Vernacular name : Chelli, Neerchelli (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas
• Comments / notes : On hills and plains along irrigation canals of fields or in ponds. Often gregarious.
• Flower, Fruit : August-March
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Ernakulam district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : India, Africa, China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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 district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; 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=Eleocharis dulcis. Downloaded on 2 June 2024.

Botanical Description