- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
- Basionym : Cyperus flavidus Retz.
- Synonym(s) : Pycreus capillaris Nees
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus flavidus Retz.
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Marshy areas in grasslands
- Comments / notes : Often on hills above 750m.
- Flower, Fruit : September-April
- Collector(s) Name : K.Gopalakrishna Bhat; Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 6-7-1970, 2-1-2016, 11-2012
- Collection Nos : KFP 3, HJCB-E-344, FAP 40091
- Collection Locality : Bilikere, Mysuru district; Batrepalli, Anantapur district; Kalasamudram, Anantapur district
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Srikakulam district, West Godavari district
- Karnataka : Hassan district, Davanagare district, Bengaluru district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Maharashtra : All districts of Maharashtra
- Odisha : Kalhandi district, Koraput district, Mayurbhanj district, Ganjam district
- Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Cuddalore district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Tiruvallur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Vellore district, Villipuram district
- Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Siang
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Punjab : Punjab
- Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Afghanistan, Algeria, Amur, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, China, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, France, Greece, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kirgizstan, K
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Afghanistan, Algeria, Amur, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, China, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, France, Greece, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritius, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, North Caucasus, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Primorye, Qinghai, Réunion, Seychelles, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Xinjiang
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- 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.
- 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
- Verma, D.M., et al 1985. Flora of Raipur, Durg and Rajnandagaon. Fl. of Ind. Ser. 3. pp. 78
- Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 267
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pycreus flavidus. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.
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