- 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 :
- 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.
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