- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
- Basionym : Cyperus atroglumosa Govind.
- Synonym(s) : Cyperus malabaricus (C.B.Clarke) T.Cooke; Pycreus malabaricus C.B.Clarke
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pycreus malabaricus C.B.Clarke
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Wetlands and grasslands
- Comments / notes : Common during rainy seasons on wet rocky areas and along roadsides.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Kozhikode district, Kannur district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
- Endemism : Peninsular India
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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.
- 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=Pycreus atroglumosus. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.
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