• 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 heterolepis Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Collection Nos : HFP 2432, CJS 15616
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district
  • Maharashtra : Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Sindhudurg district
  • Tamil Nadu : Common in plains (scrub jungles) and hills
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
• 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 dianae var. longibracteatum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description