• 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 ferruginea subsp. sieberiana (Kunth) Lye
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands in deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Occasional in hills to about 900m in open marshy places .
• Flower, Fruit : February-December
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/11/2009
• Collection Nos : FAP 37860
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kadapa district, Anantapur district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Davanagare district
  • Kerala : Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Yavatmal district
• World Distribution : Africa, Syria, Arabia, Persia, India, tropical Australia, Malaysia
• Literature : Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI.; 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; 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 sieberiana. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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