• 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 sexangulare L.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas near banks of ponds
• Comments / notes : Common in paddy fields. The dried peduncles are used to make brooms.
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Collection Nos : P.Babu 99, Krishnamurthy 22
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Sindhudurg district
• World Distribution : Indo-Malesia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; 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; 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 sexangulare. Downloaded on 14 November 2024.

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