• 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 rotundus subsp. tuberosus (Rottb.) Kuk.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus rotundus L.
• Common name : Nut grass, Purple flat sedge
• Vernacular name :
  • Nagarmotha, Motha (Hindi)
  • Badra mushti, Tunge hullu, Jai (Kannada)
  • Mustaka (Sanskrit)
  • Tunga (Telugu)
  • Karimuttan, Kuzhimuthanga, Muthanga (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Plains
• Comments / notes : Very common
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : S.S.Hooper, K.N.Gandhi
• Collection Date : 10/11/1971
• Collection Nos : HFP 2390
• Collection Locality : Near Fly. bridge at Dudda, Hassan district
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
  • Odisha : Common weed (Puri district, Ganjam district, Khurda district, Mayurbhanj district)
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Punjab : Punjab
  • Rajasthan : Jaisalmer district, Barmer district, Bikaner district, Jodhpur district
  • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Afghanistan, Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Cap
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Afghanistan, Albania, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Islands, Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, China, Comoros, Congo, Corse, Cyprus, Djibouti, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Gulf States, Hainan, Hawaii, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Islands, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Marianas, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South China Sea, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Islands, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wake Island, Western Sahara, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature :
  • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
  • 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.
  • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan dist.
  • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga dist.
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore dist.
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg dist.
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi dist.
  • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere dist.
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 257
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus rotundus. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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