• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Basionym : Hypoporum pergracile Nees
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scleria pergracilis (Nees) Kunth
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Grasslands
• Flower, Fruit : October-December
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Nagpur district
  • Odisha : Koraput district (Sonabeda plateau)
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia, China and Tropical Africa
• 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 pergracilis. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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