• 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 mucronatus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Schoenoplectus mucronatus (L.) Palla
• Common name : Bog Bulrush
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands, wet fallow fields, banks of streams, pools and at the margins of standing water
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collection Nos : HFP 2288, HFP 2380, CJS 15669
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Hassan district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district
• World Distribution : Eurasia, from Central and South Europe east to Japan
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Manjunath et al., 2003 – Davanagere; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons.
• 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=Schoenoplectus mucronatus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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