- 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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