• 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 uncinata (Willd.) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Wet and moist sandy fields
• Comments / notes : Scattered in open moist places and along coasts; Often on plains to about 1000m, in perennially moist places, locally abundant in fallow fields.
• Flower, Fruit : January-September
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district
• Native : Tropics and Sub-tropics
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• 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; 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; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur 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=Fuirena uncinata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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