• 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 lithospermus L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scleria lithosperma (L.) Sw.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Degraded forests and hill slopes, also in the plains
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 600m.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy, Arun Singh & K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 19/11/2014
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0186
• Collection Locality : Palamaneru forest, Chittoor district (AP)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district, Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Nagpur district, Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore, Kancheepuram, Kanniyakumari, Madurai, Thiruvallur, Tiruchchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Tiruvannamalai
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District; H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Scleria lithosperma. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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