• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Fimbristylis glabra Hochst. ex Steud.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Fimbristylis tenera Schult.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands and wet rocky areas in deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : July-January
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 16/09/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 40135; FAP 40093
• Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Dakshina Kannada district, Mysuru district, Raichur district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, OSM, Raigad district, Satara district
  • Odisha : Sambalpur district
• World Distribution : Tropical Africa, India, Pakistan
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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 tenera. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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