• 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 quinquangularis Vahl
• Synonym(s) : Fimbristylis miliacea (L.) Vahl
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Fimbristylis quinquangularis (Vahl) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills to about 1000m.
• Flower, Fruit : June-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Common
  • 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 Hills (Villupuram district), Javadhu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district, former North Arcot)
• World Distribution : Tropical & sub-tropical regions of both hemispheres
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
• 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 quinquangularis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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