• 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 delicatulatus Steud.; Cyperus fieldingii Steud.; Cyperus guaricensis Schnee; Cyperus leptostachys Nees; Cyperus pseudohaspan Makino
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus tenuispica Steud.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Marshy areas, along streams and paddy fields
• Comments / notes : Often on plains to 900m
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collector(s) Name : D.H.Nicolson, S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha, K.N.Gandhi; S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha; Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 24-10-1971, 18-11-1971, 13-11-2013
• Collection Nos : HFP 2315, SJC 18070, HJCB-E-222
• Collection Locality : Bisle ghat, Hassan district; Shringarpura, Bengaluru district; Batrepalli, Anantapur district
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Kurnool district
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district, Kodagu (Coorg) district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Bhandara district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Chandrapur district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Nashik district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Common
  • 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)
  • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Andaman Islands, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, La
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature :
  • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
  • 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 dist.
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore dist.
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg dist.
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi dist.
  • 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.: 258
• 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 tenuispica. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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