• 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 spiralis (Rottb.) Roem. & Schult.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet areas in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Rare in swamps and marshes
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nellore district
  • Karnataka : Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Thane district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, China, New Caledonia, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T. & Karuppusamy, S., 2008. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 5.; 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; 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 spiralis. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description