• 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) : Fimbristylis cymosa R.Br.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded moist deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 500m.
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district, Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district, Sundergarh district
• Native : Southeast Asia, Africa, Australia
• World Distribution : India, Malaysia, Micronesia, Polynesia, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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 cymosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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