• Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
  (Pipewort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ERIOCAULACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon dianae var. parviflorum Fyson; Eriocaulon dianae var. triloboides Fyson
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Eriocaulon parviflorum (Fyson) R.Ansari & N.P.Balakr.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Paddy fields and marshy areas in plains
• Key identification features : Head has no rays. Flowers small
• Flower, Fruit : September-May
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Kodagu (Coorg) district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Palakkad district, Kasaragod district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Pune district, Satara district, Ahmednagar district, Raigad district
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis; 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 parviflorum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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