- Family : ERIOCAULACEAE
(Pipewort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ERIOCAULON FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Eriocaulaceae
- Synonym(s) : Eriocaulon amboense Schinz; Eriocaulon ciliiflorum F.Muell.; Eriocaulon cinereum var. sieboldianum (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) T.Koyama; Eriocaulon formosanum Hayata; Eriocaulon heteranthum Benth.; Eriocaulon heudelotii N.E.Br.; Eriocaulon reductum Ruhland; Eriocaulon sieboldianum Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.; Eriocaulon steinbachii (Moldenke) Moldenke; Eriocaulon stuhlmannii N.E.Br.; Eriocaulon taiwanianum S.S.Ying; Leucocephala spathacea Roxb.; Paepalanthus steinbachii Moldenke
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Eriocaulon cinereum R.Br.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas
- Comments / notes : In marshes and wet rice fields, on plains to hills about 1200m, on open moist rocks along with grasses, more prominent after rains.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : H.O.Saxena, M.Brahmam
- Collection Date : 25/10/1975
- Collection Nos : RRL 2009
- Collection Locality : Paniganda, Odisha
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Y.S.R. Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, S.P.S. Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Visakhapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
- Telangana : Nalgonda district, Khammam district, Mahbubnagar district
- Karnataka : Bengaluru Urban district, Bengaluru Rural district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district, Alappuzha district
- Maharashtra : Akola district, Ahmednagar district, Amravati district, Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Balasore district, Sambalpur district, Rayagada district, Kalahandi district, Kendrapara district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kancheepuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Lohit
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos, Mali, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Philippines
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Botswana, Burkina, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Korea, Laos, Mali, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
- 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 District
- Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 – Flora of Bangalore District
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
- Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Pullaiah, 1997. Fl. Andhra Pradesh, vol. 3
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 244
- Read more :
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- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2026). India Flora Online. http://indiaflora-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Eriocaulon cinereum. Downloaded on 21 March 2026.
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