- 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) : Kyllinga pumila Michx.
- Vernacular name : Mustaka (Sanskrit)
- Habit : Herb
- Comments / notes : Common in moist grasslands during monsoon.
- Flower, Fruit : July-October
- Collector(s) Name : D.H. Nicolson, S.S. Hooper, CJ. Saldanha & K.N. Ghandi
- Collection Date : 22/10/1971
- Collection Nos : HFP 2235
- Collection Locality : Arsikere to Tiptur road, Hassan district (KA)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Bidar district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Akola district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Dhule district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
- Tamil Nadu : Dindigul district
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B.D. Sharma et al., 1996. Flora of Maharashtra state: Monocotyledons. BSI
- 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=Kyllinga tenuifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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