• Family : CYPERACEAE
  (Sedge Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CYPERACEAE
• Basionym : Zizania terrestris L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Scleria terrestris (L.) Fassett
• Vernacular name : Ellarukki (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests and deciduous forests as undergrowth
• Comments / notes : Occasional as clumps; often on hills about 1300m by river banks and marshes
• Flower, Fruit : February-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Sindhudurg district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout
• World Distribution : Tropical & sub-Tropical Asia and N. Australia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District; 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=Scleria terrestris. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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