Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz.

 
  • Family : CYPERACEAE
    (Sedge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
  • Basionym : Scirpus densus Wall.
  • Synonym(s) : Abildgaardia densa (Wall.) Lye; Bulbostylis capillaris f. densus (Wall.) C.B.Clarke; Bulbostylis tenuissima Nakai; Fimbristylis densa (Wall.) T.Koyama & T.I.Chuang; Isolepis densa (Wall.) Schult.; Isolepis tenuissima D.Don; Stenophyllus capillaris var. densus (Wall.) H.Pfeiff.; Stenophyllus capillaris var. laxa H.Pfeiff.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Bulbostylis densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Grasslands, rocky hills and road cuttings
  • Flower, Fruit : September-November
  • Collector(s) Name : D.H.Nicolson, S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha, K.N.Gandhi; Cecil J. Saldanha; Raja K. Swamy
  • Collection Date : 23-10-1971, 03-9-1969, 02-10-2010
  • Collection Nos : HFP 2266, CJS 14733, SKU 40332
  • Collection Locality : Byra, Hassan district; Yettinahalla, Shiradi ghat; Batrepalli, Anantapur district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district
    • Odisha : Kalahandi district
    • Tamil Nadu : Common
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Lesse
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Norfolk Islands, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Primorye, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
    • Herbarium specimen from Batrepalli forest, Anantapur district (AP)
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 245
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