• 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) : Schoenoplectus grossus (L.f.) Palla; Actinoscirpus grossus (L.f.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Actinoscirpus grossus (L.f.) Goetgh. & D.A.Simpson
• Vernacular name : Kachar (Marathi)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Often in marshy areas on plains
• Flower, Fruit : September-November
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district
  • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Malkangiri district, Khurda district
• World Distribution : India, China, Bruny Island, Tropical Australia, Malaysia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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=Scirpus grossus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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