- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
- Synonym(s) : Cyperus albomarginatus Mart. & Schrad. ex Nees
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pycreus macrostachyos (Lam.) J.Raynal
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Sandy areas near rivers
- Comments / notes : Common weed of paddy fields.
- Flower, Fruit : April-December
- Collection Nos : HFP 2421, KGB 97
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Mysuru district, Hassan district, Davanagare district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, GHL, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- World Distribution : Pantropical
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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 macrostachyos. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.
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