• 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) : Fuirena umbellata Rottb.
• Common name : Yefen
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet and marshy areas and rice fields
• Comments / notes : Occasional
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Cuttack district, Khurda district, Puri district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; 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=Fuirena umbellata. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

Botanical Description

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