• 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 flavidus Retz.
• Synonym(s) : Pycreus capillaris Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pycreus flavidus (Retz.) T.Koyama
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Often on hills above 750m.
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 02-01-2016; Nov. 2012
• Collection Nos : HJCB-E-344; FAP 40091
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli RF, Anantapur district (AP); Kalasamudram, Anantapur disctict (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Davanagare district, Bengaluru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Koraput district, Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
• World Distribution : Africa, Europe, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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; Verma, D.M., et al 1985. Flora of Raipur, Durg and Rajnandagaon. Fl. of Ind. Ser. 3. pp. 78; 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 flavidus. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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