• 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 ovata (Burm.f.) J.Kern
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet grasslands and marshy areas
• Flower, Fruit : June-November
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 20/11/2010
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-216
• Collection Locality : Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Bidar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Solapur district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Khurda district, Koraput district, Dhenkanal district, Ganjam district, Puri district, Kendrapara district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common
• Native : Pantropical
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• 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 et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
• 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 ovata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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