• 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 heterolepis Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Paddy fields and marshy areas in plains
• Flower, Fruit : July-November
• Collection Nos : HFP 1311, CJS 12300
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Raichur district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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 heterolepis. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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