• Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
  (Pipewort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ERIOCAULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon rhodae Fyson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eriocaulon robustobrownianum Ruhland
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas near banks of ponds
• Comments / notes : Rare in lateritic plateaus.
• Flower, Fruit : November-February
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : Kollam district, Wayanad district, Kannur district
  • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Sindhudurg district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan district; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; 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 robustobrownianum. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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