- 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) : Chlorocyperus iria (L.) Rikli; Cyperus iria var. typicus Domin; Cyperus chrysomelinus Link; Cyperus diaphaniria Steud.; Cyperus iria f. chrysomelinus (Link) Kük.; Cyperus iria f. diaphaniria (Steud.) Miq.; Cyperus iria var. flavescens Benth.; Cyperus iria f. flavescens (Benth.) Domin; Cyperus iria f. multiflora Domin; Cyperus iria var. paniciformis (Franch. & Sav.) C.B.Clarke; Cyperus iria var. santonici (Rottb.) Fernald & Griscom; Cyperus microlepis Baker; Cyperus nangtciangensis Pamp.; Cyperus paniciformis Franch. & Sav.; Cyperus panicoides Lam.; Cyperus resinosus Hochst. ex Steud.; Cyperus santonici Rottb.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus iria L.
- Common name : Iria flatsedge
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Degraded deciduous forests, marshy areas and paddy fields
- Comments / notes : Introduced in U.S.A and West Indies. Often on plains to about 1300m on hills in India
- Flower, Fruit : October-January
- Collector(s) Name : S.S.Hooper, K.N.Gandhi; K.Sankara Rao, Raja K, Swamy, Arun Singh; Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 11-11-1971, 19-11-2014, 15-11-2014
- Collection Nos : HFP 2411, HJCB-E-245, HJCB-E-229
- Collection Locality : Tank at Dandiganahalli, Hassan district; Palamner forest range, Chittoor district; Batrepalli, Anantapur district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district, Kurnool district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district
- Kerala : All districts of Kerala
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : All disricts of Odisha
- Tamil Nadu : Plains from the coast; Balaghat and to 1300m on hills
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Kameng, Lohit, Tirap
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, Chad, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Tropical & sub-tropical regions of both hemispheres
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Sharma B.D, 1984 - Flora of Karnataka Analysis
- Nayar, T. S., et al, 2006. Flowering plants of Kerala, A hand book
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 255-256
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus iria. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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