• 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 parvula Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Deciduous forests and on the edges of stream banks in marshy soil
• Flower, Fruit : May-October
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Thane district, Yavatmal district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• 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; 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 parvula. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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