- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Fimbristylis tetragona R.Br.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Wet and moist paddy fields
- Comments / notes : Often on hills and by banks of ponds.
- Flower, Fruit : August-February
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 02/02/2010
- Collection Nos : FAP 37950
- Collection Locality : Kalasamudram, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Belagavi district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Sambalpur district
- Tamil Nadu : Common
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Native : Tropical Asia, Australia
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Formosa, Tropical Australia, Malaysia
- 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
- Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan Disrict
- 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
- Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
- Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Fimbristylis tetragona. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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