• 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 ritchieanum Ruhland
• Habit : Herb
• Comments / notes : Sub-aquatic along streams
• Flower, Fruit : August-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Chikkamagaluru district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Mayurbhanj district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Deccan Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4; 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; Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
• 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 ritchieanum. Downloaded on 2 June 2024.

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