• Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
  (Pipewort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ERIOCAULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon indicum Moldenke
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eriocaulon eurypeplon Körn.
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Very common on wet laterite rocks during rainy seasons.
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Pune district, Sindhudurg district, Satara district, Raigad district, Thane district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular 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.
• 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 eurypeplon. Downloaded on 23 November 2024.

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