- Family : CYPERACEAE
(Sedge Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : BARA-NAGAR-MOTHA FAMILY (बड़ा नागर मोथा फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Cyperaceae
- Basionym : Schoenus ruber Lour.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Rhynchospora rubra (Lour.) Makino
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Sandy ground in sal forests
- Key identification features : Perrennial with short rhizome; stems tufted, slender, trigonous or triquetrous in the upper part, striate, smooth, 10-60 cms. Leaf basal and 1-2 cauline at the base of the stem.
- Flower, Fruit : August-October
- Distribution :
- Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Thane district
- Odisha : Sambalpur district
- Sikkim : Sikkim
- Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
- Assam : Assam
- Nagaland : Nagaland
- Mizoram : Mizoram
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman Islands
- Manipur : Manipur
- Tripura : Tripura
- Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Isl
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mozambique, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
- B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons.
- H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 268
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Rhynchospora rubra. Downloaded on 12 October 2024.
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