Cyperus alopecuroides Rottboell

 
  • 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) : Juncellus alopecuroides (Rottboell) C.B. Clarke
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyperus alopecuroides Rottboell
  • Common name : Umbrella Sedge, Fostail Sedge, Matsedge
  • Vernacular name :
    • Santara (Oria)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Marshy swamps
  • Comments / notes : Occasional along margins of ponds
  • Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
  • Collection Nos : HFP 1421, CJS 15701, HFP 2114
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : West Godavari district
    • Karnataka : Ballari district, Hassan district, Bengaluru district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Davanagare district
    • Kerala : Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai-City district, Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Nagpur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Thane district
    • Odisha : Ganjam district, Kalhandi district
    • Punjab : Punjab
  • Native : Tropical Africa, Tropical Asia
  • World Distribution : India, Africa from Mediterranean to the tropics, Madagascar, India to Queensland, West Indies
  • Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
  • Literature :
    • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka
    • Ramaswamy & Razi, 1973 - Flora of Bangalore district, Karnataka state
    • Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore
    • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state
    • Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1.
    • 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
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyperus alopecuroides. Downloaded on 3 December 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.