• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Basionym : Scirpus squarrosus L.
• Synonym(s) : Rikliella squarrosa (L.) J.Raynal
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lipocarpha squarrosa (L.) Goetgh.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands, also wet places
• Comments / notes : Often on plains by banks of rivers on sandy soil.
• Flower, Fruit : August-December
• Collector(s) Name : R. Raghavendra Rao; Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 28-05-1971; 02-01-2016
• Collection Nos : R.R. Rao 694; HJCB-E-337
• Collection Locality : Talkad, Mysore district (KA); Batrepalli forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
• World Distribution : South Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; 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; Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore 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=Lipocarpha squarrosa. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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