Carex baccans Nees

 
  • 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 baccans f. normalis Kuntze; Carex baccans f. aurantiaca Kuntze; Carex baccans f. nigra Kuntze; Carex baccans f. recurvirostris Kuntze; Carex baccans var. siccifructus C.B.Clarke; Carex curvirostris Kunze; Carex javanica Boeckeler; Carex recurvirostra Kunze
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Carex baccans Nees
  • Common name : Crimson Seeded Sedge
  • Vernacular name :
    • Cherukorappullu (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Occasional in shade of shrubs and trees along Ghats.
  • Flower, Fruit : July-February
  • Collector(s) Name : S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha; S.S.Hooper, Cecil J. Saldanha, A.Tabtajan
  • Collection Date : 8-12-1971, 23-12-1971
  • Collection Nos : SJC 18114, SJC 18248
  • Collection Locality : Nigiris; Palni hills
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Ratnagiri district, Satara district
    • Odisha : Ganjam district, Bolangir district, Bargarh district, Mayurbhanj district, Kalhandi district
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Kameng, Lohit, Siang, Subansiri
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
    • 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.: 246
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Carex baccans. Downloaded on 7 October 2024.

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