• 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 geniculata (L.) Roem. & Schult.
• Common name : Canada Spikesedge, Spike Rush
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wetlands, banks of pools and streams
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to about 1200m.
• Flower, Fruit : June-January
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Throughout Andhra Pradesh
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Buldhana district, Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Common
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : Cosmopolitan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; 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 district; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg district; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi district; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere 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 geniculata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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