• Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
  (Pipewort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ERIOCAULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon polycephalum Hook.f.; Eriocaulon longicuspe Hook.f. var. polycephalum (Hook.f.) Fyson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eriocaulon longicuspis Hook.f.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Swampy areas
• Comments / notes : On hills about 1400m or more.
• Flower, Fruit : May-December
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Ratnagiri district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• Native : India
• Endemism : Central and Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
• 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 longicuspis. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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