• Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
  (Pipewort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ERIOCAULACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eriocaulon cuspidatum Dalzell
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Common in marshes and paddy fields, water logged areas. Endangered according to Sasidharan, N. 2011. DVD, V 2 KFRI.
• Flower, Fruit : September-January
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Eriocaulon cuspidatum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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