Cyperus corymbosus Rottb.

 
  • Family : CYPERACEAE
    (Sedge Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Cyperus bengalensis Spreng.; Cyperus corymbosus var. brevispiculosus Kuntze; Cyperus corymbosus var. damarensis Kük.; Cyperus corymbosus var. longispiculatus (Kuntze) Kük.; Cyperus corymbosus var. macrostachyus Boeckeler; Cyperus corymbosus var. pangorei C.B.Clarke; Cyperus diphyllus Retz.; Cyperus diphyllus var. elatior Benth.; Cyperus diphyllus var. triangularis Boeckeler; Cyperus enodis Boeckeler; Cyperus enodis var. longispiculatus Kuntze; Cyperus gula-metthi Schult.; Cyperus koenigii Vahl; Cyperus longus var. pallescens (Desf.) Coss. & Durieu; Cyperus nudus Roxb.; Cyperus pallescens Desf.; Cyperus roestelii Kunth; Cyperus seminudus Roxb.; Cyperus tegetiformis Roxb. ex Arn.; Cyperus tenuicomus Miq.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus corymbosus Rottb.
  • Vernacular name :
    • Godu tunga kadu (Telugu)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Along banks of rivers
  • Flower, Fruit : August-December
  • Collector(s) Name : K.Gopalkrishna Bhat
  • Collection Date : 28/09/1970
  • Collection Nos : 68
  • Collection Locality : Ranganathittu, Mysuru district
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Mysuru district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Amravati district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Kendrapara district
    • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Shevaroy Hills, Kalrayan Hills, Bodamalai Hills (Salem district), Pachamalai Hills (Tiruchirapalli district), Chitteri Hills, Yelagiri Hills (Vellore district), Sirumalai Hills (Dindigul district), Piranmalai Hills (Sivaganga district), Theerthamalai Hills, Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Gingee Hill (Villipuram district), Javadu Hills (Tiruvannamalai district)
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Punjab : Punjab
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chad, Cuba, Guyana, India, Iraq, Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Venezuela, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Chad, Cuba, Guyana, India, Iraq, Ivory Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Venezuela, Vietnam
  • 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.
    • Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus corymbosus. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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India Distribution

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