Scleria levis Retz.

 
  • 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) : Carex laevis (Retz.) J.F.Gmel.; Scleria alata Moon; Scleria alta Boeckeler; Scleria bulusanensis Elmer; Scleria dietrichiae Boeckeler; Scleria hebecarpa Nees; Scleria hebecarpa var. pubescens (Steud.) C.B.Clarke; Scleria japonica Steud.; Scleria levis var. pubescens (Steud.) C.Z.Zheng; Scleria levis f. villosa Valck.Sur.; Scleria melanosperma Nees & Arn. ex Boeckeler; Scleria pubescens Steud.; Scleria sumatrensis var. pubescens Miq.; Scleria vestita Boeckeler; Scleria villosula Wall.; Scleria wichurae Boeckeler; Scleria zeylanica Poir.; Scleria zeylanica var. angustifolia Thwaites ex Boeckeler; Juncus zeilanicus Houtt.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Scleria levis Retz.
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Degraded forests, fallow fields and roadsides
  • Flower, Fruit : March-November
  • Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy; Saxena, M.Brahmam
  • Collection Date : 5-7-1971, 20-10-1983
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1839, RRL 5269
  • Collection Locality : Vijapur state forest, Hassan district; Joranda, Odisha
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district
    • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Mayurbhanj 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, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Sri L
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
    • 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
    • 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.: 269-270
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Scleria levis. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.

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India Distribution

World Distribution

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