• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scleria corymbosa Roxb.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Evergreen forests and stream banks of mixed forests
• Flower, Fruit : July-February
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 27/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0243
• Collection Locality : Sadasivakona, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
  • Kerala : Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Sindhudurg district, Ratnagiri district, Raigad district, Pune district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state – Monocotyledons; 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=Scleria corymbosa. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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