- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
- Basionym : Abildgaardia eragrostis Nees & Meyen
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Fimbristylis eragrostis (Nees & Meyen) Hance
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grassy hill slopes and wet places
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 800m, on slopes of rocks etc.
- Flower, Fruit : September-October
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills (Salem district), Kalrayan Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Chitteri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district, former North Arcot), Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivagangai district), Theerthamalai Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villupuram district), Javadhu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district, former North Arcot)
- World Distribution : South Asia, Sri Lanka, India, South China, Hainan, Formosa, Tropical Australia, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- 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 eragrostis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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