• 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 juncoides Roxb.
• Synonym(s) : Schoenoplectus juncoides (Roxb.) Palla
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Schoenoplectiella juncoides (Roxb.) Lye
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Common on hills above 800m
• Flower, Fruit : February-March
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 30/01/2010
• Collection Nos : FAP 37949
• Collection Locality : Batrepalli forest, Anantapur district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : India, Himalayas, China, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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.
• 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=Schoenoplectiella juncoides. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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