• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Basionym : Scirpus argenteus Rottb.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Fimbristylis argentea (Rottb.) Vahl
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet sandy places, grasslands and in rice fields
• Comments / notes : Often on plains
• Flower, Fruit : November-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/11/2009
• Collection Nos : FAP 37847
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district, Puri district, Cuttack district, Ganjam district, Khurda district
• Native : Africa, Asia
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, South & Southeast Asia, Malaysia
• 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; 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; 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=Fimbristylis argentea. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)